We flew from bangkok to changmai with thai airways a nice smooth hours flight. When we arrived at the bangkok domestic air terminal they told us that the guest house we were going to stay in was full as was all the other guest houses!, so we would have to book the only free ones with them !....funny that, it seems a current feature of bangkok, most places you ast tuk tuks/taxis to take you are mysteriously closed, but they can suggest an alternative place.....yea right!
Stayed ina intersting guest house...the laithai...hmmm....not too bad, has a pool and aircon, but seems to mysteriously have an awful lot of older male guests with very young female thai friends in tow.....one morning at breakfast there were about 7 or 8 couples like this at breakfast!, we were wondering if we were staying in a brothel....lol....of course they would really all be there because they were doing early morning foot massage.......yea right!
Havent been to changmai for 7 yrs, and its become much more toursity,a lot of the the bars are now full of very predatory young thai girls ala patpong style...shame..
City itself is still quite interesting, we did some elephant trecking in the jungle, bamboo rafting on the river and had a ride in an ox cart...very interesting . For some reason thjey seem to train the elephants to do ridiculous trick things for the tourists...totally unecessary, as they are fantastic as they are, the treck through the jungle was fab. A few days chilling out here and we were ready to start our indo china tour on dec 23rd....... wonder what our fellow travellers will be like....