Elephant Town

I woke up fairly early in Sisaket, where I spent the night.  This town is elephant crazy.  Every October they have an elephant roundup (whatever that entails).  Apparently the town goes a bit nuts with visitors from all over Thailand.  I'd asked some of Bill's mates if they were going to attend.  They said "no way in hell".  The raids leading into the town are lined with cars up to 6km out.


I saw a lot of shrines etc dedicated to the mighty mammoths all over the town.


In the afternoon I caught a train to Ubon Ratchatani and met up with Gai (pronounced Guy).  He is also on couch surfing.  When we met we went out for dinner and chatted late into the night.  This is normal for guy.