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Wat A Bike Ride
... found a street stall place that we could get some Tom Yum Soup in. Ruth found it a bit too spicy for her tastes but I actually quite liked it.
Dodging the rain we did abit of a Wat (Temple) tour. Some of the main ones were ontop of the hill overlooking the city. In a poor state of repairs they required a pretty long climb to reach. The steps were stupidly slippery and despite actively trying to stay on my feet I still managed to fall ...
Ein schoener Ort zum relaxen
... gut wie alles anziehen was ich dabei hatte (Socken dreilagig, lange Unterhose + normale Hose, langes Unterhemd + Hemd + pulli, Mütze), eine Decke mit in den Schlafsack hinein, Schlafsack (= Witz), zwei Decken über den Schlafsack drüber und, da der Schlafsack viel zu kurz ist, eine Decke als Wurst über die Schultern. Und tataa: war nurnoch ein bißchen kalt. Ab und zu hätte ich das Gefühl mir wäre sogar warm! Ab 11 Uhr dann aber wieder kurze Hose und T-shirt, ist klar.
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Halfway Point
... around their necks starting when they are three and continuing with a ring about every three years until they're in their 40's. They are only allowed to take it off during a wedding, childbirth or for operations. The rings give the women the appearence of having huge necks and is very unusual. However the place was a bit weird. It felt like a zoo with the women on show and although we knew that they needed the money from the tourism to survive we felt slightly ...
Trekking in the national park
... route took us to 2 waterfalls, which we swam in, and 1 had a cave behind so you walk through the sheet of water flowing down.
Drove back to Chiang Mai as it was the first official day of the new year festival. In the morning we just had time for an elephant trek. We each got to ride 1 bare-back through the trees and down into the river where we got soaked! There were 2 baby elephants as well and they followed ...
Elephant Nature Park
... then dumped them inside the shelters. Kevin was inside the shelter nice and dry spreading the sand around. He definitely got the easier job!
Being 17 March on Thursday it was also St Patricks day. Although Kevin was the only Irish person there, as usual everyone got on the band wagon! Nothing really exciting to tell but as expected a lot of the beer was gone by the end of the night and we were up until 3am. All great craic!
Day 5
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