Assaradevi Villa Chiangmai Chiang Mai

... man dancing to hard Techno like a school dinner lady at a disco, accompanied of course by a young teen Thai girl. Yeesh (see video below for a chuckle). The club was sh*t, so we went to another one.
It was 2:00 a.m. and this one was packed with Thai women and western men.
Many (not all) Thai girls, especially in these places, are so unbelievably easy to pick up that I find it offputting. One look in their direction arouses an instant hungry smile. They look at ...

... traveling, despite the fact that he had a live-in girlfriend at home that couldn't join him (he told us this later, not during the car ride).

When we arrived at the base, our English speaking guide, Noi, introduced himself as well as our second guide, who spoke Thai only. We started the day by climbing up a large set of stairs to a pathway that led to an enormous golden Buddha which sat on a mountain overlooking an expansive valley. We took pictures and explored the area ...

... and peaceful for me :-)

The next morning we took a cruise around the town on the motorbike and got a little lost through the one way system - all good fun though!

My tummy is feeling a little better, but am sill just eating basically bread and toast, which sucks when Mark is devouring a delicious Masaman curry in front of me :-(
We flew out of Chiang Mai to Bangkok around lunchtime.

... and wander exactly how we will get on him, when the 12 year boy that own him, tells us to step on his head to get on, so we climb aboard and enjoy the ride, white knuckles for the first few minutes before we settle in and realise that as we look as though we are heading into that big branch that Manja quickly trunk grabs it and throws it out of the way, She stops to do her business 10 minutes in, did you know??? That female elephants poo and wee at the same time, whilst men ...

Today we arrived in Thailand, Chiang Mai, Mai Rim
Were are staying at Prem Tinsulandonda Boarding School 'one of the finest schools in asia' i will be working as a boarding and P.E intern until june next year.

So far i have visited, the night market, sunday walking street market, th infamous ...

... well and it was really interesting hearing his thoughts on the whole process. The idea behind not speaking, reading, listening to music, etc for 10 days is that each time you break your concentration it's that much harder to get back into meditating and focus. While we spent the majority of the day meditating, there was a 1.5 hour break in the late afternoon and after talking with Greg I had a really hard time meditating in the evening. I can see the benefit of taking a full 10 ...

... bars" I guess.
There were also Arctic Penguins there. Why anyone would think that it is a good idea to bring Arctic Penguins to a tropical climate is beyond me. Especially when they can't afford to properly air condition their little space. You could see that their skin was not healthy, they did not look right to me at all....I don't like zoos.
It was starting to get late so we headed back. None of us were up for a big night. I'd been having a craving for Mexican ...

... to look at some other temples, including my favourite, Ta Prohm, where the trees are growing up from the buildings and walls. Then after seeing several temples I headed back to the guesthouse. The next day I went back to see some more temples, but found after a while that they started looking much the same, piles of stone. It rained that day too. One thing to be aware of at the ...

I enjoyed my cereal with raisins! The only thing better would be peanut butter. I will have to find some today. We walked into the old city to find the Saturday market. I thought the chef told us it was a morning market, but is obviously is not. We did find the Wat that we were looking for the other night - Wat Sri Supan. It appears that a movie is being filmed here. Zee Germans (Lisa Films) are making a movie and we stick around for one shot. I was able to find a Thai iced tea and ...

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