Patim House Chiang Rai
166/5 Banpa Pragarn Road Chiang Rai, Thailand
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Quick visit to Chiang Rai
... loud speaker for touching the temple tiles...tut tut! Headed off back up the motorway to Doi Tung - long road again so got our foot down! Well worth the trek, got to the top of the mountain and had the nicest bowl of chicken noodle soup...30 baht, cheap as chips! Went to the gardens, had a walk round and took plenty more pics and had some ice-cream. Back onto motorway, stopped off at Central Plaza shopping centre and LJ got some ...
Carlsberg don't make temples...
... in Chiang Rai, which meant that Bec and I were able to use our discount cards. Cha Ching! It was pretty basic, but clean and spacious, so we settled in for the night.
Chiang Rai is really chilled out, and seemed to be a much, MUCH wealthier area than other places that we have visited in Thailand. The Golden Triangle is named after the area that has produced most of the world's opium and heroin since the 1920's. (Apparently Afghanistan took over recently ...
Hill Tribe Trek
... of their legs in each step and each time they reached to eat some bamboo. We were all sad to get off, but the elephants all got a chance to bathe in the river and we all piled into a taxi to come back to the guest house.
Showers were taken and dinner was eaten and it was time to head to the night bazaar in the city of Chiang Rai. All 13 of us got our own bike tuk tuk (a taxi that is driven by a bicycle). I was inspired to sing and ...
5 little monkeys
Woke up at 6 to the sound of pigs and roosters. Everything just seems so surreal. Today was the first day I got to go out and get working. After breakfast I headed out to Jalae Childcare. The children at Jalae were beautiful. The woman who ran the daycare explained to us how the children who came to Jalae were from 2 different tribes: Akha and Lahu. She went on to explain that normally the daycare is supposed to have about 20 kids, however when we were there, there ...
Tigers!
... about 1-4 months old, bigger Tigers that are maybe a year old and then super big scary Tigers. I chose the baby Tigers and the other girls chose the medium sized Tigers. I think I chose very well, there were about 6 of them just wandering around in a big enclosure and you get to go in for 10mins and sit with them and play with them if they come up to you.
They had some photographer guy taking photos of you with the Tigers, but the photos are on a ...


