Chiang Mai

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The last part of my curtailed journey, the 8.30am bus to Chiang Mai in pouring rain. The countryside is rugged and green, it's not particularly early but nearly everyone on the bus slept the entire way. By the time we got to Chiang Mai the rain was easing, at the station I grabbed a tuktuk to my guesthouse down a narrow winding soi (alleyway) within the walls of the old city. After laying stuff out to dry I headed to Thai airways to change my flight home, roamed the old city for a couple of hours and in the evening headed to an Aussie bar, imaginatively called 'The Downunder Pub' where I watched the All Blacks hand out a complete thumping to the Aussies. It was great seeing the miserable looks on the faces of the Aussies in the bar.

DAY 2 -CHIANG MAI

walking and shopping pretty much sums up the day. On a Sunday evening they close off a bunch of streets in the old city and set up a massive market, very colourful, with lots a great foodstalls, definitely worth spending an hour or two in.

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