Wiang Fa Lampang

The noodles had an awesome time with the elephants!!! Super cool!!! Heading to the Golden Triangle tomorrow and hopefully go up the Mekong river, SWIFT BOAT STYLE...LOL <br><br>Posted pictures on noodle #1 facebook. Update this blog sometime in the next couple of days.

... ok...etc etc....don't worry she is doing the same for me. Nice way to try to get out of bed...but being the troopers that we are we manage....by rolling out. We manage to get up and into our nice and wet and stinky mahout clothes....cause incase you forgot...we is in da jungle.......nothin dries in da jungle.....mmmmm...make it down the hill for our mahouts to pick us up to try to find our Eley's. Bob laughs his ass off whilst I try to get on the scooter....I think I scared ...

... in our hands and tells us to go change in the bathroom...no prob....cept don't know bout you but I and Shauna never put on Mahout cloths before....the shirt no problem...the pants...well bit weird...came down to my knees and was capable of stuffing a redwood tree in each pant leg. Won't even believe how big the waste was...and it all ties together with a cord sown in from the back on each side. I put mine on not quite sure...feelin pretty geeky..didn't ...

... we headed to Sukhothai by bus - a slightly longer bus journey but OK. We arrived in New Sukhothai and stayed at a very nice guest house where the owners kindly picked us up from the bus terminal and made us feel part of the family! We took a bus the next day to Old Sukhothai and rented bicycles for the day. It was an extremely hot day, but we persevered nevertheless and managed to see most of the old ruins &amp; temples. There was also some kind of ceremony in ...

... but what the heck it only cost 10 pounds! When the ticket collector came along he told us that we were on the wrong train. He went away then came back and we managed to understand that we had to get off at the next station, which we did. We were met by the station master who led us across the track and stopped the Chiang Mai (express train) so that we could get on it. We could not believe what was happening or how lucky we were not to be heading in the wrong ...

... the ruins are and how underrepresented they are in Lonely Planet. Many of the temples at this site have a lot of the character I felt was lacking in some of the more touristy places. One of the temples, Wat Chedi Chet Thaew, has 30 chedi that were built in all different styles. We spent some time just wandering around looking at all the different designs, wondering why there wasn't this much variety at ...

... brought in from Burma to beg. The police were very friendly to us but a couple of likely lads on a moped were getting the 3rd degree. If someone claims to be Thai but the police think they are Burmese, they get them to sing the Thai national anthem. Burmese have slanty eyes apparently. So no stereotyping, then. Nice butterflies/moths on sign. Initial easy cycling along quiet roads. One sharp climb that made us v hot: we lost the breeze as ...

Some people collect stuff animals, I like to be different and "collect" treatments from foreign medical clinics or hospitals. Not by choice though. I have been treated for allergic reactions in the Red Cross Hospital in Hermosillo, Mexico and for pneumonia in the International Clinic in Kathmandu. Now I can add Chiang Mai Hospital (International Hospital so English is spoken by everyone) to my list. I am just fine so not to be concerned. The worst case scenario was that I ...

So I am 5 days into my life here at the farm. At first, I must say, I was surprised at my experience here. I mean, yes this place is freakin gorgeous. But I guess that I was expecting the farm that I worked at in Oregon, a real working farm. And this IS a working farm in certain aspects. I mean yes, there are 60 acres of organic orange and rubber trees and a nice organic garden. But it is not working in that it doesn't really make any money. It is owned by ...

... about 5 minutes and left. Blah. I went to yoga this afternoon at Chiang Mai Yoga Sala and it was awesome. I love doing yoga here, it just seems so much more authentic! I checked out Tony's Big Bikes which rents motorcycles for tours outside the Chiang Mai area. It's kind of funny that the name is Big Bikes since the largest bikes they have are 400cc's! Anything bigger is illegal in Chiang Mai. I also headed over the Eagle House and signed up for ...