Brett’s Travelblog of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and The USA

Im a tit…. woke up dead tired looked at my watch on the table it said 12.30….. thought what a waste of a day, rushed to get ready and headed out…. Its quiet I thought… checked my watch, its just gone 7am looked at my watch upside down in bed……

Well Im up now so headed off for a look round, found a nice little coffee shop and had breakfast then read up on Chiang Mai in my lonely Planet book. Saw some Wats like this one, Wat Don-Euang
Went walking for about 4 hours didnt have a clue were I ended up so flagged down a tuk tuk and went home for 10 Baht, 6 pence. Now in internet cafe doing this so will update more later, laters…..

Well As I guess your all on the edge of your seats to see what Ive been up to next…. this probably will not sound like me….

Ok back… its 11pm here and need to get this done before I hit the bars….

Went to visit another Wat this afternoon housing a Jade Buddha. Wat Ou Soi Sai Kham which is located on Chang Moi Kao Rd, On the west of the Mae Ping River, near to the Tapea Gate. I was the only one there and ended up speaking with a young monk called Praggah Lankar Bhikkhu and we talked for about 2 hours about England, America, Religion ( well Buddha ) He was a very well educated person and I think enjoyed practicing his English out on me. I told him about this blog as he has an email address and he asked me to email my sites name, dont think I can though cause my lifestyle and Buddhism dont really match and from the little I know im not supposed to give him ideas about western life, girls etc. He’s suposed to have very little contact with the opposite sex, wouldnt want my blog to corrupt him, I may get struck down by Buddha….. if he does that sort of thing 🙂

After this I headed up to the Night Bazzar, Chiang Mai’s largest attraction and been here for hundreds of years, its massive, street after street, mile after mile of Market stalls selling everything,

people performing singing dancing etc, like this Thai OASIS tribute band food stalls selling every food you can imagine and loads you coudnt imagine, the smells were out of this world. Beats Walsall market anyday……http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a74/brettc_/100_3689.jpg Everyone just takes their time, no one seems to be in a rush cetainly a massive cotrast from Bangkok. Ive not seen any trouble anywere feels like the safest place in the world, I know before you say you still gotta keep your witts about you, I know and I do or am whatever. As you can see from this pic everyone gets into the swing of things, well 99% do..

Planning to do the Chiang Mai Museum 2moro then the zoo and also gotta arrange a treck into the mountains to visit some hill tribes, ride elephants, white water raft, see wild and exotic animals. I know I know I can here you all saying it and its true,, its a hard life….. 😉

Sorry for the large pic sizes for you that have a slow connection all I can say is GET BROADBAND!!!!! its cheap as chips know…

Still feel guilty bartering here, you get someone wants to give you a lift to were you want to go and I barter them down from like 20 pence to 6 pence , like it really matters, this place makes you tighter than a scot ( sorry if any scots read this ) ok tighter than my dad… God knows how Im goon cope back home in the night clubs when they want 3.50 for a bottle of beer and I start the haggeling at 6 pence…

Any hows beer to be drunk ( 35 pence for a ltr bottle of Chang Beer ) and people to meet so again laters.

Lastly cause i really do have to go, MOM im still alive stop worrying your mad, have you stopped smoking yet??

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