Baan Tai Hotel Chiang Mai

... quilometros de tenderetes con ropa, decoracion, comida y todo
lo que cualquiera pueda imaginar comprar. Alli preguntamos por ese tal
Kahateo, y al final lo encontramos. Se ve que habia conocido a la cafetera
en las playas del sur, pero se habian separado. Despues de leer el anuncio
en el periodico se encontraron. La cafetera le dijo que no dejaba de pensar
en el, y Kahateo le conto la verdad ...

... more exciting by the hurtling water gushing over the sharp rocks beside me.
Another hour of trekking later, a wide pool emerged from the trees, it spread out at the bottom of some rapids, the river rushing down swiftly, hitting a rock face with gusto, carving a deep pool to jump into from a fair height. Gun demonstrated. He flipped into the pool backwards, and emerged with a whoo and a grin. Before he even hit the water, I swapped into swim wear and was head first in the water, my ...

... look up for fear my eyelids would be torn off. But the water felt amazing rushing over you like that. Once we climbed out of the shower-I mean waterfall, we started walking-I mean trekking.
We walked for the next three days, often through stretches of jungle lacking anything resembling a path, often through flourescent green rice paddies in sloping country valleys, often on narrow muddy ridges over rocky riverbanks 30 meters below us. Almost always in the rain. Light ...

... and purple dress of these people it makes for a very beautiful ride. Little thatch huts, old women, animals and fields line the side of the roads. 

Arriving back int he camp felt amazing. People came out of their houses to greet me, and many recognized me from my previous visit. Seeing Kham Ong the boarding house manager was like catching up with an old friend as she sat and updated me on the childrens well being. The children yelled out 'she is back, she is back' and ...

... with some other travelers and we obliged. After about 2 minutes we were disappointed with this decision. We joined a table of three British guys on a 2 month holiday. [so unfair that they get so much vacation!] Not only were they drinking a vat [to be more precise, the shape of a large top hat] of ice, Johnny Walker (so huge in SE Asia for some strange reason], and what smelled like Midori. I tried to inform them that there might be a ...

... Guidelines Chiang Mai, Welcome to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, and What's on Chiang Mai -- which contain maps and useful information. You can also find any of a number of detailed maps distributed free, chock-full of adverts for local shopping, dining, and events.City LayoutThe heart of Chiang Mai is the Old City, completely surrounded by a moat (restored in the 19th century ...

... offers of some opium to share with them and headed to bed next door. However, a bamboo hut is not the most airtight of environments which might explain the incredibly strange dreams everyone seemed to have that night! We were def the noisy people in the group and were probs keeping everyone up with our giggling, especially Christie and Bernie who, judging by their conversations seemed to think that their mosquito net (full of m***********s¦) was sound proof...!

The ...

For our first day back in Chiang Mai we slept and relaxed and then went to our usual night market. Here we both get very cheap yet tasty dinners! We also made sure to send off our laundry and to go by the elephant nature park office to make sure that our reservations were in, they were YAY! The next day we decided to take some cooking classes. This class was a lot more organized than the class we took in Laos and a lot bigger. We even got to set our wok on fire ...

... was scattered with many, colorful exercise machines, which we all tried out for ourselves. If only MN had a park like this it would make going to the "gym" so much easier and more enjoyable. We also ate at the park's outdoor food court and tried a variety of tasty Thai dishes and treats that we never had before. A Thai woman was extremely friendly and helped us order food and introduced us to her friends. We bought special health shakes from her called ...

... shorts and light shirts. To make matters worse, the airport is a 20-minute ride from the bus station and the only available transportation is...tuk tuk. Egads. At least it was one of the larger ones with a semi-enclosed topper over the back, but even after digging some hoodies out of the bags it was a long, long 20 minutes on the road. Now, what was that "Happy Tourist Basics" Rule #1 again?

The tuk-tuk rolled up to Chiang Mai Airport where we paid the man ...