Chiang Mai

We got out of bed around noon since we had a wild night with our new Norwegian friends. Josie needed food to shower but wouldn't go get food without showering so I ventured out to secure our first meal of the day.

I found a great little food court that even displayed the words 'Take away' in English. I bought two soupy meals that came in sandwich bags tied with elaatics. There were no chopsticks, cutlery, or anything else to help us eat so we poured our food into the hotel glasses and sipped our lunch.

We finally got out of our hotel room and started our day with aome strong tea and coffee. We walked to the old town of Chiang Mai and checked out the old city wall and moat. Then we toured multiple temples, of course. At one, some friendly young monks asked us to sit down and chat with them. We accepted this offer. So, under a tree in the courtyard of a temple we chatted about life with some monks for abiut 20 minutes.

We had some delicious papaya salad, pad thai, and fried pork for dinner then went to check out the old city tower. This temple/shrine sits about in the middle of town and is very impressive, even for being many hundreds of years old. It was humbling to be looking up at such an impressive abd intimidating structure. 

A friendly Thai man suggested we check out the Saturday Walking Street.  Every Saturday an enormous stretch of road ia closed to traffic and vendors galore sell everything from food to trinkets to underwear.

To escape the downpour, we hired a tuk tuk to take ua back to our hotel. I bought a beer fron 7/11 that turned out not to be a beer so I pouted, watched Thai/American tv and we went to bed.