A Night With No Electricity or Running Water

After the ordeal that was the awful trek we go settled into our home for the night, a bamboo hut which when you walked on felt like it was about to crumble under your feet. It was one big room to fir 9 of us in, there were thin mattresses laid out on the floor and blankets for us to use, no pillows and plenty of holes in the walls for the friendly misquotes. If the hadn't been a cooler full of beers, I really don't know what we would of done that night. Our tea was prepared over a camp fire, which the fella that had built the hut and it was part of his home had cooked all the food for us, it was tasty, but I feared I was eating dog, so i mainly stuck to the veg. Night fell and it went pitch black in a matter of minutes, so the drinks came out and so did the drinking games. Our elephant trainer had traveled up on his motorbike to spend the night with us then would travel back down in the morning and be with the other half of out group who were with the elephants. Music was playing and the games began, it was a card game and whoever lost had to either take a shot of a unknown alcohol or have the face painted from the soot of a cooking pan, lucky me lost first so had my face drawn on.
After quite a few drinks and quite a few rounds of this game, the tribesman whose hut we were staying in got our a musical instrument which he had made himself we all clapped along to the music he was playing, then we had a sing song, which was complete and utter fail looking back at the video, wrong timing and wrong tuning, but it was a really good laugh! We headed to bed in the early hours after trying to master using the porcelain potty the have as a toilet whilst tipsy and being in the pitch black, it was a struggle! We had planned to wake up at 6am to watch the sunrise, this didn't happen and we slept straight through until we could hear the words breakfast. Then instead of reliving my horrendous experience of the trek I decided to do the clever thing and take the truck back down to the elephant sanctuary where we sunbathed and ate lunch whilst waiting for the others to head off to water rafting.