After searching long and hard, we have managed to locate an internet cafe in rural Thailand, so here's the next installment of Backpack Diplomacy. We've spent the last few days negotiating prices with Thai silk merchants, negotiating Chiang Mai’s traffic on a motorbike, and experiencing the exquisite pain of Thai massage. We've also learned to keep our eyes constantly peeled for baby elephants walking down the sidewalk, but more on that in a minute. If you're looking for someone in Chiang Mai, and we mean anyone in Chiang Mai, chances are pretty good that you'll find them at the night bazaar. Actually, finding them in the sea of stuff and people would be quite difficult, but they're probably somewhere between the silk vendors, the designer jean knock-off tables (knocked-off, we’re quite sure, in the same factory
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