We arrived in Chiang Mai after a trip on the night train (cue the Guns and Roses song from '87). It is a very nice city, albeit very touristy in areas. We took a 3 day trek in the Thai jungle north of here. It was pretty amazing as we hiked to remote villages, had an elephant ride, whitewater rafting, floated on bamboo rafts and got to know the people in our group (from Israel, Lithuania, Ireland, Slovenia...). It was an experience sleeping in bamboo huts on stilts under mosquitoe nets and using showers/toilets that had their water supply fed from the flowing river by a submerged hollow bamboo trunk. Lucky we finished the trek when we did as I (Scott) am reacting badly to the malaria pills and haven't been able to keep food in
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