Panda Guesthouse Chiang Mai

After leaving the beauty of Pai, I am now en-route back to Chiang Mai (again!!) to look into a Thai massage course - after doing some research around Pai, it would seem the best schools are back in Chiang Mai. So about turn and back track for another visit... I travelled with Obi (Canada) and we settled into a tiny room at Panda Guest House and set up our travelling kitchen. Each morning we rose, cycled to the park and practiced yoga. Post-yoga we then cycled to the local market, sampled the ...

So we arrived in Chang Mai, Thailand's second city and the largest in the North, early doors. After our bus dropped us at a hotel for complimentary drinks at 5am we were treated to a sales pitch on behalf of the hotel owner. Sensing a hard sell, we slipped out and into a taxi to take us to our hotel which we had booked in Bangkok in a rare moment of organisation. I say taxi, it was a pick up truck with a roof and two benches which allow you to sit eyeball to eyeball with whoever else flags it...

Ahhhhhh the sun is shining as our bus pulls into chiang mai and a short while later were in a tuk tuk (crazy driver) on our way to our guesthouse. Our first impressions are that we like chiang mai although our choice of guesthouse leaves a lot to be desired. Like its namesake the panda guesthouse leaves us with dark rings around our eyes, due to the lack of sleep. our room seems to be bug central and luke very galliantly spent much time scouring for and ridding our room from giant icky cockro...

we made to chiang mai yey... on a bus which took ages but we are so glad we are here, the new year is crazy here with everyone involved in a water fights. we are staying here for 6days and got an excellent deal on our room of 12obaht a night ( although the toilet a little bit scary, i saw a lizard!) Plus everyone seems booked up as it songkran (new year) so we were lucky to find a place at all really) can't wait till the 12th though it should be amazing, had a chilled day today of lounging by...

so the 12th has finally arrive which is songkran yey mass water fights everywhere, technically some watefights started yesterday and i got soaked at least 4times by a bucket and around 20 times by people. thankfully we found some awesome super soakers and we could get people back. so everyone back home " sawadi be min : ( thats not how u spel it but im not good at spellin sorry) We settled into our second day here yesterday and after a wicked night sleep ( as the bed is amazing here) we set o...

Sabadee be mai means happy new year. and its new year right now in thailand, and its absoulutly amazing! the entire city has become a battleground for the worlds biggest water fight! we got here on the 10th and found a nice place to stay, the panda guest house. we got a discount on the room as we are staying for like 6 nights. and at only 120baht a night which is like 2quid. so for the past few days we've been wandering round chiang mai. found a pool and went swimming for a while which was ni...