Chiang Mai

Up early to fly to Chiang Mai, SA is ill. The amazing driving isn’t helping either! They love the breaks in Thailand, and the harder the better it seems. Sue-Ann is sick all over some art we bought the night before which had to be thrown away .. yummy!

The 45 minute flight to Chiang Mai saw a completely different Thailand. Flat and open, very ruraly with lots of fields. The heat seems just as intense as Bangkok. We met our rep in Chiang Mai at the airport - Uma Porn. Quality names they all have out here .. wonder who we will get in Phuket. She is a small lady with Dennis Taylor style glasses and constantly says “you see?”. So anyway, the drive is over an hour to our hotel, the Sheraton Chiang Mai. We are tired, SA is ill and it is raining. We sleep for a bit, the time difference is really catching us up.

Waking up we go get some food, and take our first tuk tuk ride, on reccomendation by him, to the Riverside Restaurant. The restaurant was wooden, rustic looking, right on the banks of the river.. photo…..(….)

The north is famous for it’s dumplings and sticky rice so we had some of that action, along with our customery tom yum soup and a few other dishes.

Afterwards we headed into the Chang Mai night market. Alot quieter than Bangkok’s but some nice stuff. I bought a thumb and little finger ring, and a ring for SA. I found some Jade, had been looking for some I could hang from some leather since we arrived. We carried on looking about late into the night before getting a tuk tuk back to the hotel.

SA still wasn’t well and crashed as soon as we arrived. I found some Muay Thai kickboxing and Ultimate Fighting Championship on the TV so stayed up late, totally engrossed.