Bossotel Hotel Chiang Mai

... there wasn’t much noise, not really any beggars, no mad motorcycles carrying all the family and their belongings, and not a Lexus in sight (Phnom Penh is really full of contradictions!) … and no smiling Cambodians. I had my first ride in a car for 4 months, getting a taxi from the airport – really felt strange. Should I mention that we made the mistake of getting the taxi from the rank outside instead of organizing official receipt ...

... the wat were for them. They stay at the wat and the state pays for their education, they get their food through donations from the local community.

Final wat on our list was a special one - Wat Chedi Luang a lovely wat in front of a huge chedi (burial mound) from 1441. It had been partly and a bit clumsily restored as you can see in the photos, but it was another peaceful spot. In one of the surrounding temples we ...

... another Singha!!

Then it was over the footbridge to the Night Markets.............huge!!!.....goes for block after block.........covered maybe 5% before raising the white flag and heading back for a well earned rest.

Free Wifi at Baan Orapin will allow me the opportunity to get up to date with the blogging.

Cheers .........trust you are all in good health.

Until next time.............

See ya!!

This past week I've been pretty lazy, spending the majority of my days by the pool and wandering around. Pretty exciting I know! ha ha I'm actually really enjoying the laziness!

Last night for supper I had my usual Pad Thai ala cart but instead of taking it into my room to eat as usual, I decided to sit at a table right by the hotel instead. There, I met ...

... yum soup, curry,
pickled vegetables then some sweet Thai dessert and coffee. The show
was quite good and the dancing entertaining the Thai women are so
delicate.



Day 3 Floating Markets, Tigers, River
Kwai and more.



Jerry arrived at 6:30am to pick us up,
on time and driving his own car we headed of North of Bangkok towards
the floating markets. Traveling at 120kph crossed over a large
bridge with yellow tension cables and through the ...

... auf die Kao San Road mit all dem billigen Kram begeben haben :-) Der naechste Tag war dann der letzte fuer Marie und Steffi und so stand ein Must-Do in Bangkok, der Koenigspalast, auf dem Programm. Es ist eigentlich mehr ein ganzes Gelaende als ein Palast. Fuer uns zwei war es auf jeden Fall das prunkvollste und teuerste, was wir je gesehen haben. Ganze Gebaeude, die in der Sonne einfach nur golden schimmerten und glitzerten, riesige Statuen ...

Bangkok. More eventful than we'd expected. On the bus journey, which could have been 6 h and turned out to be 16 h, rumors of trouble in Bangkok started to spread. At the border crossing the official asked me to be more specific about where I was staying than Bangkok. 'Khao San Road' I wrote down (backpacker central but not actually where we stayed). He laughed, pointed ...

... On the third day we had the choice of a four hour walk or four hours on a bamboo raft....hmmmm, such difficult decision!! All but one person in the group chose the raft surprise surprise!! Floating down the river passing buffaloes taking a bath and elephants grazing was a bit like a dream! It was so stunning. We were very lucky with the weather as we just arrived before it started to pour down! After lunch we had such a bumpy car journey ...