5.30.2004
CHIANG MAI
Vivienne and Lonny are here traveling with us, and we're having a blast. So nice to have some familiar faces around -- particularly theirs. After a day in Bangkok, we took the night train (14 hours) north to Chiang Mai. It's quite a bit smaller than Bangkok -- 800,000 people. Our first day here we did a day-long trek that took us through a hill tribe (aka: souvenir) village (the Hmong), then swimming under a waterfall, on an elephant trek through the jungle, and then floating down a river with dragonflies on a bamboo raft. Lonny's been loving the birdwatching.
Today we participated in a Thai cooking class, complete with shopping at the market, and stuffing ourselves with the delicious food we'd prepared. Tonight we'll go to the Sunday market, and tomorrow we'll ride motorcycles up to the mountain-top temple that's the heart of Chiang Mai (and supposedly terrific bird-watching).
I'm particularly grateful for some long-awaited girl talk.
Vivienne and Lonny are here traveling with us, and we're having a blast. So nice to have some familiar faces around -- particularly theirs. After a day in Bangkok, we took the night train (14 hours) north to Chiang Mai. It's quite a bit smaller than Bangkok -- 800,000 people. Our first day here we did a day-long trek that took us through a hill tribe (aka: souvenir) village (the Hmong), then swimming under a waterfall, on an elephant trek through the jungle, and then floating down a river with dragonflies on a bamboo raft. Lonny's been loving the birdwatching.
Today we participated in a Thai cooking class, complete with shopping at the market, and stuffing ourselves with the delicious food we'd prepared. Tonight we'll go to the Sunday market, and tomorrow we'll ride motorcycles up to the mountain-top temple that's the heart of Chiang Mai (and supposedly terrific bird-watching).
I'm particularly grateful for some long-awaited girl talk.
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