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We arrived at our hostel and got shown our rooms,as sam and rich had booked half an hour before us,they got an air conditioned room with an en-suite. We got a room that resembled a prisoners cell, we called it cell block h instead of our room, its was a double bed, a fan and a window that had bars on it, naturally mike got so hot each night he couldnt sleep but apart from that the place was nice and friendly and the director spoke perfect english!
Chiang Mai is a lot more relaxed than Bangkok, so we just took it easy drinking beer in a students bar all night, where we ordered some food not realising it was all sushi, and awfull! Thursday we had a walk through the town,got some food shopping and some beer! Later that evening we went to a thai blues bar, band was good but couldnt understand what they were singing,even though it was enlglish songs! We also found an Asian version of Craig in the drummer of the band, was the spitting image of him,the clothes,the eyebrows,the recceding hairline ;o)
Next day we vistied the temple, me and sam went to go to the toilet and right outside was an elephant, just stood there starring at us, which was very strange! As we walked past it made a noise and we both screamed like big girls and ran away with all the local Thai's laughing at us! There were 360 steps upto the temple,and in sunny, 35 degree heat,it wasnt that fun! Temple was nice, view was awesome cos it was right on top of a mountain! We stopped off in the zoo on the way back and saw some giraffes and larges pandas,which were very cute!!
Monday we went on our little trek. First we visited the longneck hilltribe, the people with rings round their necks, then on to the elephant ride! We climbed onto our elephant and he set off up hill, and in the background all we can hear is Sam screaming cos the elephant they were on has just sneezed all over her and shes covered in green goo, which highly amused us and particuly our elephant rider man as he wouldnt stop laughing and going 'girl got wet, hahaha' Then our elephant decides he's hungry and wants to eat some food from over the cliff,so we're just sat there hanging over the edge of the cliff while the elephant eats, i thought i was gonna die! a few times that ride, especially when he goes down hill and it feels like your gonna fall off! Sam and Rich's elephant sneezed on them a few more times but ours was good and didn't! After that was a few more hill tribe visits, then we went to see a waterfall in the pissing down rain,got very wet and muddy! Next was the white water rafting, with me and Sam in the back,the captain behind us and the boys in front, we set off,un fortunutly for us, the boys were rubbish at is,so much so that captain kept calling them lady boys, which made them row even worse! After hitting the first rapid,richard nearly fell out and was bouncing along the boat, then cos we were so crap at rowing,we got stuck on every rock,and went down a few backwards,all the time the bys are being called ladyboys! The water rafting was definatly hte best bit cos it was so funny!
Off to phitsanulok next!
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