A-Nine Place, Chiang Mai Boutique House

... br>Today I rented a bike again and cycled around. The temples here in the North are so different from the South - much more wood and more carvings and so beautiful that it nearly makes you cry.

Most loved sentence so far: "Same, Same" is nearly used in every context. When you ask for a tour or a recommendation or anything really. All is "Same, Same". I even saw Thais selling T-Shirts with Same, Same printed on them - got to ...

... br>him (and it wasn’t just so i could have a 12 foot trunk between my
legs that could pick up Bananas , but i did pick up a few tricks)
because i heard that the Elephant Drivers were pretty handy with the
sharpened hooks that they use to drive them and one girl told me that
her driver drew blood on her Elephant while needlessly beating him,
now i spend my first night in CM at the local Mauy Thai fight night
and apart from drinking to many Whiskey Buckets and ...

... handhaegu' fotsporum til hlidanna, sem aetlast er til ad standa a. Tarna stod eg, med vasaljosid i munninum, reyna ad hugsa ekki um dyr sem gaetu radist a mig og helt skalmunum uppi med badum hondum. tetta gekk vel. eg kom ut, leit upp og hef aldrei a aevinni sed svona margar stjornur eda stjornubjartan himinn. tvilikir kontrastar i einni klosettferd.
Vid forum ad sofa i fyrri kanntinum, doldid dosud eftir daginn. 'Husid' sem vid svafum i var hvorki med golfi ne ...

... we were so tired and sore from the trek that we had a nap! Then we got up and headed out for a thai massage. Was so painful yet so relaxing all at the same time! Can get a little rough!
Then we headed out to a bar and met up with the other travellers from the trek. Was good to meet up in a more relaxed situation!
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Day five of chiang mai was a walk around the streets and then headed for out flight back to bangkok.

Chaing Mai was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... to run through the gears. In 5th now, my favorite gear, the rush is over. I decided to put off driving into town to stock up on groceries until I get the driving down a little better. 5 hours and kilometers and kilometers of beautiful mountainous terrain later we arrive at the Burmese border, Shane needs to restamp his passport. I drop him of at the gate and uturn back down the strip. Motorcyles, bicycles, cars, tuk tuks, and people everywhere. I finally find a parking ...

... by heading to a Wat, Wat number 1 as it turned out to be, Wat Phra Singh. This took all of 10 minutes and it was still only midday so we decided to go daring, hire a moped again and head to wat quite far outdof town and up a hill. After battling the traffic, the 3 lane roads, millions of massive cars (we hadn't quite expected that, after only having driven on a deserted island and Vientiene, almost deserted), we stopped shaking, the adrenaline dissipated a ...

... unbuttoned all the way, wet with sweat, and white as a ghost. I had never seen him that pale! I was also feeling horribly sick so the two of us commiserated with each other as we sipped on soda in an attempt to calm our queasy tummies. We reluctantly reentered the van with barf bags close if we needed them but luckily after the rest stop it only got better and we were back in Chiang Mai in no time. After waiting a few hours at the bus station we hopped ...

... away having gone down the fall was very difficult; as soon as I thought I had gotten away, a different current dragged me back in. Another short walk to a taxi-van ended up with us having lunch at the same place as on the first day. The toilets here were basic ones, where you have to fill up a pot from a large water barrel to use as a manual flush! When I went into a cubicle, it was dark, and was somewhat surprised when a few seconds later ...

... to age 44 and elephants can live to 100 years old. An elephant can not be used for work until he is at least for years old.

Until this point he will stay with his mother and start the beginning of his training.


After they finished bathing them, they headed the elephants over to a small stadium area to show us just how much training the elephants ...

... cake which was beautiful. Got to Tapae Gate and the moat around the old city. It was built in 1249. Kept wandering and had a late lunch of Pad Thai noodles and Tofu with Bean Sprouts. Nathan’s favourite is Pad Thai.






Caught a tuk tuk to the moated area with little lanes where there are lots of backpacker ...