Lanna Palace 2004 Chiang Mai

... rice all down myself and over their floor in the process. <br><br>The week went by so quickly, I can't believe it. I had a leaving ceremony where the mahouts tied lots of string around my wrists to give me luck. If I cut the string off then I will get bad luck, so I'm walking around Thailand with string all up my wrists. I miss the camp and the elephants already. It was so great to get so close to the elephants - they've got a lot of personality, and it was obvious to me ...

... at one point making us all fly backwards and nearly fall out. It was really fun though, especially as there were two other rafts on the river at the same time as us, so we made a race of it and when we neared another boat we would start splashing them furiously with our oars.After half an hour or so, we finally arrived at the right hand side of a river bank. Note: the river was a lovely shade of brown, no doubt on account of copious quantities of mud, so I have no idea why it's called ...

... candles. Given the ridiculously cheap prices for all of this luxury, we are further convinced that we should figure out a way to stay in SE Asia rather than coming home. <br><br>After squealing over our fabulous digs, we walked up the river for dinner. We decided to eat at the aptly named Riverside, which is apparently a Chiang Mai institution. The crowd was a diverse mix of ex pats tourists and locals, and featured a cowboy themed cover ...

... mistakes. The other Canadian teacher Paul is really critical, so I was relieved not to get him!<br><br>I felt quite calm working through the massages and it was going really well - that is, until half way through and disaster! Trying to move Sophie into a particulalry tricky position, where you stand in front, lift her legs up to 90%, then bend her knees into a cross legged position to rest on your legs. Doing ...

... I recommend avoiding these *******s at all cost. After Koh Tao I was keen to leave the centipede infested island and head back to Koh Sumai via boat, sleeping mostly, and then caught a plane the next day to Bangkok. There I picked up my stored stuff and found my keys I had mysteriously lost (I left them in the storage room..lol). I then headed out to meet Mary at the airport and check in for a night of luxury at the Airport Bangkok Novotel , an extreme ...

... day. Then we rested for a day and didnt do much at all. Me and mark decided to get back into it on wednesday as it was the last day of the festival, much the same we just went to a few different bars. There was a guy selling masks so i bought a scream mask with a big tongue that stuck out, got an amusing photo of that to upload. Managed to inflict quite a lot of damage to myself on the last day. Was very slippery in the bar so i managed to fall over and cut my elbow ...

... hand soap and small towels to dry your hands. WOW! We hired a tuk tuk to got to the Chiang Mai National Museum as it is out of town a bit and not even shown on our map. We were concerned when he said that we had to take the Super Highway (maybe we will be Super Killed?), but it turned out fine and did not take too long to get there. It is not a popular spot for taxis or tuk tuks, so he is going to wait for us to bring us back to the city center. I feel ...

... up the hill... all seemed well as i told my self this was easy and would all be fine... actually seemed more fun in the end... then ...only to get another top... to be faced with an even steeper and more deadly looking DOWNHILL drop with no sides of shrubbery to potentially catch my fall... i got of and decided this was just not going to happen... felt pretty stupid and pathetic right now! Until three familiar and lovely faces came up the hill (with sickening ease ...

... noe vanskelig, og vi traff både på korte og lange smug føre vi kom oss hjem i 12 tia.<br><br>Tid for luksus!<br>Neste morgen tok vi taxi til Sheraton Hotell for 30 bht = 5 kr, hvor vi skulle møte Morten og resten av klassen. Når jeg så hotellet Morten hadde sendt oss til tenkte jeg "hm.. ser litt dyrt ut". Lite viste vi at Morten hadde planlagt en natt for oss på et femstjernes hotell! Folk henta bagasjen våres med en gang bilen stoppet, og vi gikk opp trappene mot inngangsdøra av ...