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Temple and cycling trip
Ok, this is Mark the co-pilot, giving Susan a well-earned rest from blogging. Today was the first of two days in the hands of Intrepid travel, an Australian firm based here in Chiang Mai. We met our two co-travellers, Sandra and Joe from Brisbane, in the lobby and headed out to Doi Suthep. Our guide was A.K. (I'm not protecting his identity, that's the name he gave us). It was a 40-minute drive on windy roads to the temple, which is halfway up a mountain to the west of Chiang Mai. Then ...
Trekking day 2
... at the river bank. Next, we all got onto traditional thai bamboo rafts to continue our journey down the river, there were about 10 of us to a raft, with a guide at the back with a long pole steering us, much like punting!
After about 20 minutes on the bamboo raft we again dismounted onto the river bank and this time walked through to a group of huts where we had freshwater showers and were provided with a lunch of thai fried noodles.
After ...
Part One: Seven Cities and One Island
... woman grabbed my arm and didn’t want to let go unless I bought the hideous bracelet she wanted me to have. I couldn’t stop laughing as I tried to get away from her, and Dan was able to take some really good pictures of her. Finally I cut loose, and we thought maybe it was a good time to move on.
We spent our first day motorbiking around. We found a beautiful hotel, the most expensive on the mountain, which had the most beautiful garden I’ve ever ...
Back to Nature
... were slightly difficult to navigate. We passed rice fields, flower growing operations deep in the bush (not anything illegal I was told). We passed coffee growing operating which had its own coffee show also deep in the bush - the water was boiled over a fire and the coffee hand ground. I was offered a taste - it was very very strong.
We walked out of the bush ...
Temples, elephants and thai boxing in chiang mai!
... a very openly gay and camp thai man who was hilarious and we had to sit on bicycle seats which surrounded his bar. However when we all sat down on one side the whole bamboo bar seemed to tip as it was balancing on some random rocks. Pretty unsteady contraption but it managed to remain upright. After hearing about this mans boy friend and his full moon partying and his drug taking in vang vieng - he highly recommended the mushroom pizzas - we popped ...
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