Lin'S Place Chiang Mai
15/6-7 Moonmuang Soi 9 Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Elephants, Oxen, and bamboo rafts!
... song for part of the trip. After that we watched the elephants perform a show. They did some really amazing tricks! They played harmonicas, did the hula hoop with their trunks, kicked soccer balls into the goal, gave their trainer a massage, and even painted pictures (and even more that I can't remember)! It was amazing! Elephants are so smart! After the show we had another delicious meal of fried chicken, chicken and ...
UN envoy to Chiang Mai mountains
... trip back to Chiang Mai in soaking bottoms will be a very special memory for us both!
To give them their credit though, while our international band of Indiana Jones wannabes slept all the way home, Ian and Mr Whiskey never let up the chatter to one another - I wondered how many jokes they could tell each other before one of them cracked...by not retaliating with an equally funny quip in return. It just went on and on and on and ...
Thai food anyone... I'm a professional cook now!
... 20B per bowl) and the first one we come across is hippos!! Jo is ecstatic :D we pay to get a bowl of potatoes each. The hippos seem to love it and wait by the edge of their enclosure with their mouths open waiting to be fed (either that or they're starving). You are close enough to them to touch them (which is slimier than I thought it would be) and we thoroughly enjoy feeding them. We wander round the zoo for about 4 hrs, also feeding giraffes and zebras, before heading back to ...
Lamphun Cooking Excursion
... flat back roads to the
farm. First some of the herbs used in cooking are picked
by the participants, and then we get down to the
business of cooking.
There are five different meal groups with four choices
within each group. You cook the first 2 group choices
and then eat. Cook the third group choice, eat again.
Cook the last two group choices and eat, ...
Chiang Mai and elephant training
... the elephants were enjoying themselves. Once we had finished the treck we had quick showers before moving on to a factory which turns elephant dung into paper. Our final stop on the way home was a tour of the local Market. Besides his passion for elephants, our tour guide obviously loved food. This was really interesting to see but also very revolting at some points. Maybe it's sometimes best to not actually know what goes into your ...


