LarainNepal

Namaste, Well the last few days have been pretty interesting. On my last day in Bangkok I woke up feeling a little bit unwell and not able to eat anything. I had just figured out the dehydration thing and now this indigestion! Anyways, I decided to power through it an go visit the Emerald Palace Grad Palace, which is basically the No. 1 tourist destination in Thailand. At least it seemed that way. I think all the tourists arrived in Bangkok while I was in Chiang Mai for the weekend. The Emerald palace is this huge temple complex, with a few (?) very famous buddhist relics. One of them is an Emerald Buddha (surprise surprise). It was incredible, the architechture is so ornate and colorful, with all ofthis gold,and glass mosaics. There is one part of ... read more

Hey guys, Yesterday was really great weather in Chiang Mai, it didn't rain at all! I had a delicious breakfast at the Peppermint cafe, some glass noodle soup wit vegetables. Here they don't do all the flavorings of the soup for you, they let everyone do it themselves. So alongside the soup you get four little tins with different sauces and spices: each one if spicy, sweet, salty, or sour. Those are the four basic components of Thai food, so your supposed to kind of make your own favorite ratio. We walked along the alley from our guesthouse onto the road beside the moat that surrounds the city and flagged down a taxi to take us to the Zoo. We really wanted to go to the top of Doi su tep mountain, but the previous night ... read more