Secret Garden Chiang Mai
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Riding on empty
For the geographically challenged, Chiang Mai is located in the north of the country near the boarder of Burma (present day Myanmar). Chiang Mai is famous for possessing more than 300 temples, its proximity to the jungles of the northern highlands and the hill tribes that inhabit these lands. We were especially interested in making our way up to …
Stop 13
... ears reminded us of thick car shammy cloths! After we sat on the elephants we had a mini walk to practise our commands then went for lunch. After lunch we were allocated our elephants. Each elephant in the park there were 21 in total had their own trainer that was with them 24-7. We were 2nd in line on the trek behind the baby one. Ours was female . She was a bit of a bugger because she kept stopping to pull branches to eat all the way along the route. She ...
Day 19 & 20 - More water works ;)
... carefully cleaned and coated with a variety of spices as required. We tried cashews with coconut, chocolate, coffee, caramel, butter, honey, hot and sour, spicy, spicy soup ,white and black sesame seeds, salted and garlic fried ones!! I bought some coconut and black sesame ones for you all to try at home :) We reached Chiang Mai at 3:30pm....had lunch and I had a classic Thai massage...it was really good...god these women are strong! I bought something ...
Cooking, Markets and Genie Pants
... buy everything for cheap. Haggling was surprisingly difficult with the stall keepers but generally if you bought more than one thing you could haggle it down to a better price. I bought quite a few pairs of 'genie pants', a strange phenomenon sweeping Thailand where only foreigners wear these floaty trousers. It makes you feel like you're wearing pyjamas all day and its socially acceptable to an extent, I'm not sure the locals understand why its so popular. I got to go ...
Chiang Mai Trekking
... that we saw so many badass Thai guys do all across the country, and by trying ourselves we really noticed how difficult it is. Chai joined us and obviously he was a boss at it, and I was lucky to have him on my team. We eventually quit the game and had to go hike back. The last hike was just like the previous ones, but it followed a river so we got wet a lot. After going through some crazy thick jungle plantation we got to a waterfall without tons of rocks ...
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