woke up early on day 2 for our cosy breakfast in the balcony attached to our room! 
every breakfast set came with toasts, croissants, pancakes, juice and coffee/tea!
definitely a good (and very filling) start to the busy day ahead.
…
right after breakfast,
we were picked up by the minivan for the first line-up of the day — water rafting!
the awesome view at the rafting place!
this is also where we did the flying fox.
speaking of the flying fox,
it was actually quite lame.
i think the entire experience took less than 10mins?
so UNscary i could even zipai on my way down. :p
then we changed into our swimming attire to ready ourselves for the rafting adventure.
here are some pictures taken with the girls in the same tour group before we got wet.
let the rafting begin!
again,
i must really thank my trusty waterproof pouch which has served me well,
allowing me to capture the precious moments on the way 
how i think i look when i row: how i really look like when i row:
(so 9gag haha!)
fellow raft-mates!
you must be wondering how did i manage to take so many photos while rafting?
that was because all these while,
i haven’t been rafting much!
this guy was doing all the work:
though i’m happy that i managed to camwhore so much throughout,
i wished i was the one having to do all the rafting so that it can be more exciting.
nevertheless,
i guess i still enjoyed myself quite a bit la.
lunch was next and after that,
we boarded the minivan to our next destination where we’ll complete the rest of the day tour.
this island safari place has EVERYTHING!
in here,
we rode on an elephant,
and fed it with bananas.
(ok, zikai looked more like he was feeding ME in this picture)
towards the end of the ride,
the elephant trainer weaved this cute necklace for all the girls which i though was really sweet!
we also tried fish spa there.
it was the second time in my life and i think it’s likely the last time too.
just check out zikai’s expression and you know how ‘shiok’ it was hurhur.
(my feet barely touched the water haha)
after the fish spa i was really looking forward to the atv ride.
but to my disappointment,
it wasn’t really what i’ve always imagined it to be.
we were basically riding through a rather flat terrain within a rubber tree plantation. -_-
and they were being very anal about us taking photos while riding,
so this was the only (decent) shot we managed.
as there was a lot of waiting time at island safari,
(we had to take turns for the atv rides, etc)
we zikai ended up playing with the monkey outside one of the attractions.
i guessed we must have spent a lot of time there because the bond between the two of them was so strong that the monkey refused to let go when we had to leave!
“you‘re mine!”
HAHA.
it was quite a funny sight to see zikai wrestling with it for so long.
even the angmohs were amused. 
alas,
we ended our day tour with an elephant show and a monkey show.
here’s the elephant fishing out the bananas hidden inside the guy’s pants heh.
and a fat-looking me + zikai with the elephant:
i looked so bloated!
and i’m shocked at how different i looked in the next picture.
just a change of angle and i look much skinnier!
i hope in real life i dun look like the previous photo. 
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we ended the long day with a delectable thai meal at the seafood restaurant along the main streets of ao nang.
tired + hungry looking us.
all the dishes were nice,
perhaps just a tad too salty.
after dinner,
it was just a relaxing tuktuk ride back to our hotel for a good rest,
to brace ourselves for the adventures-packed day 3!
