After being in Chiang Mai for so long I decided that I needed to get away for a long weekend. There aren't so many national holidays in Thailand but on the friday it was the Kings birthday so almost everyone had the day off... this was essential as I was traveling to Chiang Dao with a Thai person. So as I was with a Thai person we took the local bus up there (I wouldn't have done by myself, I didn't even know where to get off and ould have ended up by the Burmese border) which is only about 1.5 hours and in a straight line near enough, and it turned out I was the only farang (foreigner) on the overcrowded bus... so overcrowded in fact that the walkway was full of people, two person
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