Tastes like chicken
Thursday, January 7th, 2010The week in Chiang Mai is flying by, but in between afternoon massages, happy hour drinks, and great curry dinners, we’ve come up with our list of most memorable days from the last year. Here’s our list of the experiences that made us say “wow” and kept us talking about them.Top 10 Most Memorable Moments– Pyramids in Giza and/or Temples in Luxor, Egypt – hard to pick one over the other, so we’ll cheat and say both
– Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand
– Cable car to Aguile du Midi to see Mt. Blanc and then hike back down to Chamonix, France
– Ride from Delhi to Agra, India – it took 7 hours to go 180 km and it was truly something that can’t be duplicated
– NYE Fireworks in Sydney, Australia
– Kayaking to a hotel and then hiking back the next day in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand
– Walk along the cliffs from Firostefani to Oia on Santorini, Greece
– Cycling through the vineyards in Beaune (Burgundy), France
– Gaudi sightseeing and then watching the Tour de France pass through Barcelona, Spain
– Cruising the backwaters of Kerala on a houseboat, India
– Climbing to the top of Skellig Michael, Ireland
You can never tell what will make a day special or how something will turn out, so we’ve found it’s best not to have any expectations and just be surprised when it happens.
We’re still hoping for a few more good moments before we end our trip. In the meantime, we got to try something new yesterday. We took another cooking class and during the market visit someone was buying a durian fruit and offered us a taste. Many hotels in the area have a “no durian” sign – a picture of the fruit with a line through it. The reason for the ban is the smell it gives off, which is hard to describe – something sour, stagnant, or rotting. It’s pretty awful, but we held our breath and gave it a try. The taste is very strange, but not what I expected and not bad. Here’s the foul fruit at the market:
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