Sripoom House Chiang Mai

... that, and it was a perfect jungle moment!

After the snooze on the way back to the hotel we were ravenous, so we ate some crunchy noodles and fried pork, and decided that we were far too tired to bother tuk-tuk-ing to temples. We followed a determined Matt to the Fish Spa/Ticket Office and took some pictures of him getting his toes nibbled by a pile of little fishies. Ben, Rhonda, Jamie and I continued on to a massage parlour (one of many), where most ...

... fell down the stairs going down to the dock because the stairs narrowed all of a sudden, and I didn't know it. And, well, I was trying to light the incense and candle on my krathong while walking down the stairs so I wasn't looking at the ground. Probably shouldn't have done that.

Then my candle broke so I couldn't get it back in with the flowers. Two other people had to help me because my flowers were starting to catch on fire. So I made my wish and ...

... off to discover that the bloke who had led us up the stairs was to be my bloody masseur. I was not happy. If it wasn’t the fairly attractive girl, it could have at least been a woman. At least, however, Troy didn’t get her either; instead he received a massage from a woman who had blatantly been a man at some stage, judging by her face, and who was sporting the most bizarre hairstyle ever, short and permed on the top but long and straggly down past her ...

... I get rides on the back all the time! Thanks to Scooter's scooter. :)

Scott took me sight seeing and we saw the old moat that encloses the old city and a few absolutely beautiful Buddhist temples which not surprisingly are completely different than Buddhist temples in Nepal. There are temples everywhere here!

It was a hot day so we took it easy but not before we visited the Yamaha dealership where Scott has his eye on a shiny new ...

... br>I talked to the camp manager and asked him what he thought of me selling the products that the woman weave in the weavery back home in NZ, with the profits going back here to the camp to be used for the whole community for electricity, water, sanitation, hygiene etc. My only requirement is that it benefits the whole camp. I watched the woman weave; they make the most beautiful scarfs and bags, and sell them for what we consider not even loose change. I talked to the woman for ...

... house and some Canadians (so many Canadians here!!) - we stopped at a local market to pick up supplies (a rat walked over one of the Canadians feet - gross - rats everywhere in Chiang Mai!) then went to the teacher's house and cooked about 7 different dishes throughout the day which was cool....
The best thing about it was spending a day in the home of a Thai family - the guy Pot, his girlfriend Nan and their newborn baby Pan (see what they did there with the baby's ...

... we probably couldn't have found without their help, and prepared a bbq feast to celebrate after we 'legalized it'. Not to mention the dozen or so other things they've helped us out with throughout the last few weeks. We've promised to keep in touch and unlike other contacts we've made on our trip, when I say I'll email them I fully plan to. I'm really going to miss them and we were all tearful when we hugged goodbye last night.

... Julie's where all the backpackers go. Nobody really seems to leave the hostel, and people just sit around drinking all day in either the hostel lounge, or rooftop bar. It was here that we fell in love with the rooftop darts board, where many an hour was spent. On the second night in Chiang Mai, we went to the Muay Thai boxing, which was entertaining. Although I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't fixed, as the bookies would only let you put ...

... to the Sunday Night Market - Man it was CHOKKKKA. We got ice-cream - me lemon DK had chocolate - very nice a cross between a sorbet and an ice-cream but 50BHT each - bit steep I thought, bearing in mind our dinner just cost total 50BHT. :( Anyway we then went to a sweet stall and bought what looked like breast implant shaped turkish delight - i kid you - not...I had blueberry DK strawberry. After getting jostled about for just a little too long we decided to make our ...