Preparing for arrival to Chiang Mai
It was of course fun and enjoying ...and also a little too cold..we din't bring enough warm clothing to chiang mai..din expected it to be that cold!!
Actually so many days in chiang mai made me kinda blur of wat i did each day..cos all were simply too exciting..
The hotel we stayed-Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel, The statue displayed a dancing goddess
Hand mades umbrella are beautiful!!
I think the activity that i liked best was bamboo rafting!!We did it in a river branched out from MEKONG RIVER!!(Thanks god I still remember a little from my Form3's Geography) Therfore the water were quite rough..it was quite dangerous though but we have capable rafting guide to help us through the river..when we finished with the bamboo rafting, we were dripping with river water. Thats not really a good thing because the river is where the elephants "berak" and "kencing". So we got extraaa "well perfumed" smell on us!!haaha..
Preparing for water battle!!
We got to ride the elephant as well!!Even though their size were XXXXL but they are really cute in some ways..they took on the liking to disturb each other which include humans and their own spesies!
We rode through the river with easy pace!!
We visited so many buddhist temple..I think there is around 300 buddhist temple in thailand!!so imagine how many monks and nun are there in Thailand??There are around 35 temples in Chiang Mai itself and only visited the 6 most famous ones!!They had this priniciple in Thailand that, a true Thai man must at least be monk once in his life, which can be from 3 days to forever!! however monks in Thailand are not vegetarians!!
My granpa and the gold pagoda..(the tip of this pagoda is made from real gold..believe it o not??)
The sleeping Budha
The Sleeping DOG
Baby elephant working on his artwork
We also seen many "rare human spesies". Some are runaways from Yunnan and Myanmar.Some are really really very poor children that they do not have enough food to eat and enough clothes to wear..Started to felt how lucky I am to be growing up in such a nice family. I feel really really sorry and sad for the small kids there!!
My mummy's children..
The Long-Neck girl, age of 6 wearing a 3 kg copper rings
These are the disgusting things they sell in their market..damm gross..They sells dead crockroches, maggots and worms as snacks..Gross to the MAX..almost puke in the market!!
Lastly will be their flowers...Chiang Mai is indeed a flower heaven, from poppy flower to cabbage and even pumpkins!!We even went to the royal garden of Chiang Mai!!There is where the royal family enjoy their walk once in a while..
Poppy flowers
Lavenders
The 9 Golden Globe
Sleeping DADDY and beautiful orchids
We went to Laos and the border of Myanmar on the last day..Ntg special except you can cross over to Laos without your passport!!Not bad huh??
Looking COOL for the last day