Our last full day in Chiang Mai, and I'm pretty sure we've exhausted everything to do here. Not that it isn't a nice place, just a few days seems enough time to do most of what it has to offer, other than a jungle trek which I would have done if it wasn't wet season. . Everyone always raves about the massages and cooking classes so today we got a massage and Katie and I are off to our cooking class tomorrow.
We woke up a bit later today and didn't head out of the hostel until about 11 (the joy of staying for two nights). We wandered into town in search of food, all starving by this point, and spent a while looking at places which seemed more expensive than those we'd previously been to. We finally tracked down a reasonably priced place and got some lunch.
Feeling refuelled we headed to our massage after spotting a place offering 140 baht hour long Thai massages (a little over £3). I had one the first time I came to thailand but it was still very much an experience; pleasant at some points but painful at others, and I left feeling several inches taller and suitably relaxed.
We went for a wander around the city, it wasn't too hot though a little humid, and we went into a beautiful temple. The highlight of this visit was us mistaking some (very realistic!) sculptures of monks to be the real things, trying to subtly take photos of how still they were sat... I've never felt as stupid as I did realising the sign in front said "do not touch the sculptures". Oops.
After wandering round there for a while we got a cold drink from the supermarket then headed to a local park. It was pretty and also had these weird outdoor exercise things which was pretty cool, and we tried them out the best we could, before heading back to our hostel.
We got back after 5 to find it was still eerily empty, and did our workout, showered and did some research for later in the trip. We then headed out to 7/11 to get some stuff for dinner and breakfast, then spent the evening playing cards. Monsoon-like rain started pretty quickly which creeped me out massively as I started to think we were going to get trapped and probably murdered (always logical and rational) which was worsened by our wifi cutting out. The timing is very annoying, especially as my friend Mollie is joining us on Thursday and landing tomorrow morning, so hopefully it will be back working soon to contact her!
Laura x
We woke up a bit later today and didn't head out of the hostel until about 11 (the joy of staying for two nights). We wandered into town in search of food, all starving by this point, and spent a while looking at places which seemed more expensive than those we'd previously been to. We finally tracked down a reasonably priced place and got some lunch.
Feeling refuelled we headed to our massage after spotting a place offering 140 baht hour long Thai massages (a little over £3). I had one the first time I came to thailand but it was still very much an experience; pleasant at some points but painful at others, and I left feeling several inches taller and suitably relaxed.
After wandering round there for a while we got a cold drink from the supermarket then headed to a local park. It was pretty and also had these weird outdoor exercise things which was pretty cool, and we tried them out the best we could, before heading back to our hostel.
We got back after 5 to find it was still eerily empty, and did our workout, showered and did some research for later in the trip. We then headed out to 7/11 to get some stuff for dinner and breakfast, then spent the evening playing cards. Monsoon-like rain started pretty quickly which creeped me out massively as I started to think we were going to get trapped and probably murdered (always logical and rational) which was worsened by our wifi cutting out. The timing is very annoying, especially as my friend Mollie is joining us on Thursday and landing tomorrow morning, so hopefully it will be back working soon to contact her!
Laura x
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