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Sawadee ka from Thailand!
Guess what? I'm better!!!
Yay!!!
I woke up yesterday morning feeling tonnes better and even felt hungry so Caz and I made the most of that and head into town to eat. We then decided to go to Doi Suthep which is a buddhist temple with views overlooking the whole of Chiang Mai. We caught a songthaew (Literally translated as 'two bench' - a car with two benches facing eachother behind the driver) up the steep hillside to Doi Suthep, it's so high up our ears were actually popping! When we got there, we saw options for a cable car or stairs, Caz convinced me to take the stairs, all 306 of them! Wasn't that bad really. At the top there is firstly the amazing view over Chiang Mai but also the north of Thailand's most holiest shrine, a huge 'Chedi' at the highest point. Thai people and others were encircling it a number of times, then offering flowers, candles and insence etc. and praying. After spending some time here looking in the temples at the buddhas and other statues and generally observing what was going on, we headed back down the steps where our songthaew was waiting to drive us back to our resort.
We got home feeling quite tired, me from being sick and Caz from her trek. So we went into our room watching films and when we got hungry ordered a delicious Hawaiian pizza and garlic bread with cheese, just as the er... Thais eat! hehe.
After a good nights sleep we got up early this morning and checked out of our guest house and back into the 80B dorm as it is nice and very cheap. Caz ate leftover pizza and I treated myself to breakfast at an organic restaurant, BLT in a toasted wholemeal bun and pineapple and watermelon with roasted sesame seads! Yum.
We have just booked ourselves flights for tomorrow afternoon to Udon Thani near the Laos border, from there we will catch a minibus to the border, get our visas sorted and then head into Vientiane to do some fun activities such as tubing!!! Whoop whoop!!!
Anyway best be off now but I will speak to you all soon!
Ps. Flight number DD8627 Chiang Mai to Udon Thani - Nok Airways 15:45 (local time) Weds 31st Oct '07.
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