After the Feast of Steven last night, you wouldnt believe how nice it was to see six slices of toast for breakfast this morning. We left Lampang for Chiang Mai taking in the sights of Burmese style temples (complete with monks) and a thai market. WARNING...If you are eating, please stop until you have read this paragraph. Thai markets are horrible places but I guess as a westerner, I have to accept that this is a normal Thai way of life. From the outside, it looks very normal and its not until you get under the roof that you begin to notice and smell the horrors these places provide, stall after stall of fried insects (cockroaches and the like) and live animals couped up in tiny cages including turkeys, chickens and dogs ready to be sold,
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