Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Heading South!!
Well, it's our last night in Chiang Mai and it's been a good two days. Tuesday was just a total chill-out day, late mornings had by all. Pretty much ended up all of us doing our own thing throughout the day, wandering throughout the city, exploring. Shane and I ended up bumping into one of Shane and Tomas's neighbours from Sligo, Niamh Cread and her sister. We'd known they'd arrived in Chiang Mai that morning but it was still strange to bump into them randomly on the street! Further wandering ensued and met up with the Creads and one of the guys who had been volunteering with Niamh for din-dins later on. Actually, I've just remembered that I haven't spoken bout our tag-along! Her name is Hetty, a German and needless to say, it was Paul who was talking to her first! He met her on Khao San one night and it turned out she was on our train from Bangkok. We've all been hanging out together for the last few days. Anyway, we all went out for a few drinks after dinner in the coolest pub I've ever been in. It's a rooftop bar, where black lights are in abundance, no roof over most of it and eveyone sits on the ground on cushions! T'was a pretty good night!
Today, as i said in the last post, we had a tour organinsed for us by the Tourist Office that we'd been dealing with. Though it was supposed to leave at 10, in typically lazy student fashion, we held it up till 12. First stop was a snake farm outside the city. Not a pleasent experience. Shane, for all his roaring bout a fear of snakes, managed pretty okay. I however, came out more afraid of them than ever. Paul on the otherhand took quite an active role in the show, even "saving" the Snakeman when he had a snake around his neck. A monkey show followed and which was almost sad, all the monkeys chained up, though still with plenty of movement room. Stopped off at a handicraft village for a bit where we got some food and then went up to Doi Suthep, which is a huge temple in the hills around Chiang Mai. I suppose all the Temples are different, but i can't really tell, but the best part of this one was that there was a huge panoramic view of Chiang Mai city from one side of it which was really cool. Went back to the hotel afterwards and just in time too, 'cause as we went in to out rooms, the heavens opened! Didn't really matter, because I think naps were had all round, (i'd a great one anyway)
That's pretty much all the news right up 'til now. We're heading south tomorrw, flying out just before 10, should get there bout two hours after. Everyone is getting kinda bored of the urban scenery, though the jungle was great and Chiang Mai is miles better than Bangkok. I'll write again at the weekend and may even have found somewhere to put up pictures!
Slan!
Today, as i said in the last post, we had a tour organinsed for us by the Tourist Office that we'd been dealing with. Though it was supposed to leave at 10, in typically lazy student fashion, we held it up till 12. First stop was a snake farm outside the city. Not a pleasent experience. Shane, for all his roaring bout a fear of snakes, managed pretty okay. I however, came out more afraid of them than ever. Paul on the otherhand took quite an active role in the show, even "saving" the Snakeman when he had a snake around his neck. A monkey show followed and which was almost sad, all the monkeys chained up, though still with plenty of movement room. Stopped off at a handicraft village for a bit where we got some food and then went up to Doi Suthep, which is a huge temple in the hills around Chiang Mai. I suppose all the Temples are different, but i can't really tell, but the best part of this one was that there was a huge panoramic view of Chiang Mai city from one side of it which was really cool. Went back to the hotel afterwards and just in time too, 'cause as we went in to out rooms, the heavens opened! Didn't really matter, because I think naps were had all round, (i'd a great one anyway)
That's pretty much all the news right up 'til now. We're heading south tomorrw, flying out just before 10, should get there bout two hours after. Everyone is getting kinda bored of the urban scenery, though the jungle was great and Chiang Mai is miles better than Bangkok. I'll write again at the weekend and may even have found somewhere to put up pictures!
Slan!
# posted by Team Thailand : 11:50 p.m.
