Just another 'roadtrip'

Yesterday Paung's friend called and asked if we could come to help them move their furniture from upstairs to downstairs. The waterlevel in their village went down a bit more and thus groundfloor is free of water. We had to travel from our village The Emeral Park 2 to their village Lapawan 15 which is about 13 miles away from here. We managed to find a guy with a boat willing to bring us. The area all around here is still completely flooded. I recorded a bit of video of our trip down there.

When we arrived there the water in the streets in the village was still knee-deep but their house was indeed dry inside. While we travelled there in the meantime Paung's friend had decided to postpone moving the furniture a bit because their are afraid the waterlevel might rise again for some odd reason. We stayed for while and headed back around 6pm. In Thailand it gets dark between half 6 and 7pm. Another reason to head back was our 3 dogs which we leave outside on the balcony when we are away from home.

We left Paung's friends' home and their stephsister accompanied us because her mom's house in The Emerald Park 2. We waded through the water in Lapawan 15 and hoped to cath a boat just outside the village entrance. I noticed darkness started to set in and you don't want to find yourself wading through the water at nighttime. A number of crocodilefarms in were flooded and quite a lot of crocodiles managed to escape from the farms. In Bang Bua Thong alone people caught about 6 or 8 and killed about 2 already. The biggest one was about 4 metres long!

Exactly that I was afraid of happened.. No we didn't have an encounter with one of these fierce animals, however as villages are 1-2 miles away from eachother with grassland and ricefields in between, you never know what can be hiding in the water. As we were wading through the dark waters in the streets of Lapawan 9, a boat with an engine approached. It actually was a private boat and the owners just came back home from a little trip. We asked if they could be so kind to bring us to The Emerald Park 2, which was still about 9 miles away. To our joy they agreed and so we hopped in and arrived back in our own village in about 15 minutes.

Here are some video's and pictures. 

 

 

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