Thailand: What an amazing place.
I still can't wipe the smile off my face from the elephant ride and the bamboo raft trip down the river. Our tour guide said we might get wet so we shouldn't bring a camera. Good suggestion. The Thai have a festival in Chiang Mai called the Water Festival. In the downtown area, over a three day period (which becomes seven), everyone delights in soaking everyone with water from the moat, the river, or from barrels with ice water. Great fun and they don't discriminate as to who gets soaked. Business people in suits, tourists, Thai, drivers of cars or motorbikes, doesn't matter. As we were finishing our raft ride, two groups of children lined the raft route and proceeded to splash us as we floated by. SOAKED. And then, we immediately piled into the van for the ride home. a fantastic day.
We are staying with our friends, Terry and Nicki who have been here for almost four years. They are very knowledgeable about what to do and where to go. After the past few days in Chiang Mai, we drove today to Sukothai, ancient seat of the government of Siam. We are in a small resort very close to the Historical city and are going to rent bikes tomorrow and drive around and into the ruins. Will continue taking pictures-am into the second 512GB flash card.
Have seen amazing things and had some great food and great experiences walking around the area. Have met many people at the cooking class we took and the raft and elephant trip. Canadians, Aussies, French and Spaniards. Many people are traveling through this area because it is so inexpensive and beautiful. the people are so friendly and helpful that is impossible to have a bad experience. We have met so many people who are backpacking across South East Asia. Their stories are great to hear.
Notice that I have no pictures with this post. I will try and download them with Terry's computer Sunday or Monday evening before we leave for Part 3 of the tour: Phuket. And after that, China.
Kids, notice that this blog is not very creative. Perhaps, later.
3 comments:
All that creativity will come in time. I hear you will have a fair amount said commodity in the future, so I'm expecting a very creative blog.
Love the updates. Elephants! So cool!
Elephants! as Daorcey says...sooo cool! sounds like you guys are having a wonderful time! ..BTW.. how do you pronounce Phuket? Kev wants to know...and how come there are no pictures...especially of Jannose eating?
Kevin: the 'h' is silent. No 'f' sound. sorry. jannose won't let me take pictures of her eating. She edits the digital pictures right away.
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