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Lost day
Woke up early and made our way to breakfast. Feel horrible from the night before. Went back to our guesthouse to lay down some more. We had a tour booked to see the tigers but we had to cancel as we were too sick. We went back to bed and napped all afternoon. ...
Elephants Don't Have Keys
... to see one of the Spaniards fall out of the other boat. There was mild panic but I doubt anything would have happened in 2 feet of water.
We swapped our raft for a bamboo raft next. We just sat and relaxed on this thing as it gently sank/took us down stream where we were picked up by the van and moved onto the next big bit of the trip, elephant riding.
Elephants are what Chiang Mai is all about, we had plumped for this tour over the ...
Top trunks
... made it in the end through a lot of sweat and nearly tears haha. One more problem before we saw the temple, Indre and her slutty shorts that had to be covered up haha, they weren’t bad in actual fact just you have to have your knees completely covered to get into the temple. But anyway she got a very fetching silk cloak to wrap round her which quickly solved the situation so all was good. The temple itself is very impressive, not saying it was worth the steps but it was ...
Arrivals!
... and I headed down to the Chiang Mai Sunday night walking market a little after 5PM today. After eating some treats, shopping and shuffling with the crowds, we made it back to SaiThong around 8PM and crashed. I swear, this market gets bigger and BIGGER with every passing Sunday. We went through about half of it. I'm sure there will be more tired puppies than us two after tonight :)
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Cooking with Fine Ochs
... he has more than one class moving through today, and make our way up into the barn-like structure that holds the ten or so cooking stations we will require. Sewat takes his place in front of his own cooking station at the head of the two rows. He has his patter down cold and infuses it with Buddhist philosophy, with which he is obviously enamored, a punctuates with an Eddie Murphy-esque nasal laugh. He's great. Soup gets us ...

