eating delicious food at an open air street market
taking a picture of a monk taking a picture of a monk...
local terra cotta arts
at an orchid farm
riding on an ox cart
taming wild beasts
navigating the jungle
what the...
it felt like a wet vacuum!ok, so after bangkok we got on the train that we showed you in the last post- a fun eighteen hour ride through the thai countryside : fun, beautiful, bumpy, squeaky...
then we arrived in chiang mai. what a relief after bangkok. though had we not been to bangkok first we might have been intimidated by chiang mai, or thought that it was a crazy city. instead we arrived well seasoned for the slower pace. we were just in time for their annnual flower festival and sunday market. street after street was closed off to cars and taken over by street vendors selling crafts, clothes, wares and fresh foods cooked to order. some of the best eating we've done has been at the street vendors here in thailand.
the people have been some of the kindest i've ever encountered. so many people unsolicited have offered help (and not trying to sell us something in the process!). frankly it's taken a little getting used to ( for brian at least, as he is prone to trusting no one).
oh, and as you see by the pictures we spent a little time with some elephants!
