Chiang Mai

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Chiang Mai

By now our time scheduling is all messed up and we're not in the places we should be. We were supposed to go to Myanmar (Burma) for a bit but the peeps in Chiang Mai said they've cancelled flights from there cos of friction at the border. So getting there would have meant more time, effort and money than we were bothered to spend! Instead, we stayed here in the North of Thailand for a little longer. It's great up here! We went on a cool trek in the mountains near the 'golden triangle' (golden triangles are apparently the most common triangles in Asia) where the Thai border meets Burma and Laos. Its the height of the dry seaon so the landscape was pretty dry. Bushfires looked cool tho and we still found some cool jungly places to play jungle book etc. And our guide showed us how to hunt chickens with catapults and leaf-spears- which is well fun! We stayed in little 'tribal villages' (that have tourists come stay nearly every night), drank lots of moonshine and taught the kids how to do the hokey-cokey and sing heads, shoulders, knees and toes. knees and toes.

Apart from the trekking, we spent a couple of nights at the Muay-Thai. This is Thai kick-boxing and its fun to bet beers on. One guy was sick and another guy slipped in it- immense!
We took a cooking calss here too. It was ace and we've got a little book how to make everything. We can grind up curry paste now and know what a few more of the wierd vegetables in See Wu are. Tom Yum soup rules. Yum Yum.

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Photos

Reason 42
Eels/catfish/something

Reason 23
Loads of different types of egg-plant

Reason 15
Fish!

Muay Thai
Get drunk and shout at fighting men!

Oldskool rafting
Doesn't look like much but playing pirates all the way is immense!

Dennis the menace
These catapults are all the rage in the jungle. Even an old lady went and fetched us a big bag of stones to practice with!