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Prayer bells Flew back from Phnom Penh in Cambodia via Bangkok then up to CHIANG MAI! AKA The Gold City. Flew in a thunderstorm cue again Holly screaming to get off the plane. (one day we'll have a normal flight!).
Chiang Mai is right up in the Northwest corner of Thailand and is a really beautiful peaceful mountain city full of temples, monks and canals etc. We had a really nice and funny few days here. Had one quite bizarre night where we were trying to find a decent place to have a few beers and ended up at this weird little place with ox skulls on the walls like some sort of cowboy bar. Then a load of half naked Thai prostitutes turned up with their western sugar daddies (Nana couples) so we left lol. On the way back we came accross this ancient little old Thai man who was reading tarot cards by the side of the road and we both had a reading. He couldn't speak much English but from what we gather Nicks gonna be rich and im just gonna be happy. Haha. Sounds good to us. Was strange though that we both picked a load of the
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The whiskey station! WAHEY! same cusp cards... (see pictures) Weird beard.
Nick would also like to add that up untill now Holly thought that Babaghanoush was a Jewish Rabai. HAHA.
We also went to the safari park to see some of the only giant pandas left in the world and to feed giraffes 😊 (one of Hollys little dreams) was SO GOOD! The Pandas were the cutest things possible. Sitting in chairs on their fluffy bums eating bamboo haha. (reminds us of Hendrix Hollys cat!)
Also while in Chaing Mai we visited a temple called Doi Suthep which is up a mountain. SO BEAUTIFUL! Overlooks the whole city. We stood up there and watched the sun go down was crazy. We also visited a Karen longneck hilltribe which was pretty cool. Bloody expensive day out but was really interesting seeing them and how different they are from us.
Then we travelled up to the little mountain town of PAI!! Which is a little secret hippy hangout by a river. Is such a beautiful place right up in the mountains with hundreds of little bars and quirky hippy shops. Theres also a really good live music scene. It almost felt like
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The elephant that nearly killed us! we were back on the islands in our little A Framw hut by the river with Hammocks and all the wooden shack bars with axe cushions etc. Had a really nice time there. Met a couple of Thai guys (one who was the DOUBLE of Matty!) and they took us to a bar and wouldn't go home untill we wanted to bless them! Was really nice talking to them.
We also had a bit of a disasterous elephant ride with a very flatulent and untrained elephant. Haha... we'd booked on this trip to do an hour and a half ride then you go and wash them in the river. But to do so you have to ride bare back which would have been ok if we were bloody trapeze artists or something but in the end it was so painful trotting around doing the splits we didn't even make it to the river haha. Just ended up getting off and walking like John Wayne for a few days. The poor owner aswell, he was walking behind it and it let out the biggest fart we've ever heard RIGHT in his face haha. He was holding on to his hat
and everything. Then it ran into the bushes with us on its back, legs spread and literally ripped up a WHOLE tree with its trunk haha. Wasn't funny at the time but can laugh about it now...
So yeah... Elephant riding isn't very fun haha.
We then hired motorcycle taxis and went to the hot springs in Pai which was so cool 😊 completely natural and at the top its 80 degrees! You can bathe in the pools lower down which would have been nice if it wasn't already 40 degrees outside haha. It was funny Holly said about how she wanted to boil an egg in it and we walked round the corner only to see a big sign saying NO BOIL EGG! Haha. Someone was obviously stupid enough to have the same idea...
So there you go 😊 that was Pai and chiang Mai. We spent one last night in Chaing Mai at the Night Bazaar and got a ride with the nuttiest woman tuk tuk driver ever. She was zooming round at top speed and beeping at all the pretty blonde girls as she went then doing this really loud dirty laugh haha. Brilliant.
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Buddist script on a tree at a Wat And Holly fell over infront of a packed restaurant area, squeeling and embarassing herself greatly!
Next entry Bangkok....
xxx
PS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERES 3 PAGES OF PHOTOS!! PLEASE SEE 😊
PSS. A Huge hello to Jo and Liz from Langkawi 😊 Thankyou both for the message and really glad you got back ok. Will email in the next few days! xx
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