Boom Chiang Mai wah wah!
Thursday, April 5th, 2007If you don’t watch tele, then you won’t get this title, even if you do watch tele, you may not… obviously it’s the heat.
Chiang Mai is nice! Like Tainan is to Taipei and Kyoto is to Tokyo. Chiang Mai is calmer, smaller, quieter, greener, more village-like but unfortunately not cooler than Bangkok.
It was a full red moon the past couple of nights, and so we think in celebration there has been a local pop concert with local singers and pop dancers (neon clostumes, cheesy dancing – perfect)… entertaining and good night market-style food.
We Have been here 3 days and 3 nights now. The first morning we went out looking at Massage schools. There was basically 2 that fit into our dates which we both visited. ITM (International Thai Massage) school was recommended by the Thai Tourist Assocaition and seemed really nice with a nice teacher and lots of students. It teaches Northern style massage and set in a nice district, but the courses don’t run all weeka and if I did the subjects I wanted, I wouldn’t have been able to see much of Thailand after the course before I go home. So in the end we went for the Classical Wat Po style, Chiang Mai branch. It seems a little more hardcore, having more accupressure than the more stretching-based Norhtern style.
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