Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chiang Mai is probably my favourite Thai city that we got to experience. It's got an amazing night market, a seemingly cool nightlife, great people, and beautiful sights. Plus we bungy jumped here, so that just made it all worth while. All in all, there's just loads of things for tourists to do. We also went for a one day jungle trek to a hill tribe village, and that was an amazing experience. We played soccer in the mud, played with the kids who were full of energy (Jordan and I couldn't figure out why our arms hurt so much the next day, but we were lifting them all over the place), tried bugs, etc. We even got to dance with the locals, they sang for us, and we were asked to sing to them, so what did we choose? Bohemian Rhapsody of course! We got to ride elephants on the way back to Chiang Mai, and bamboo rafts where it turned out to be an all out battle fighting to make everyone as sopping wet as possible. Jordan and I even ran into Mel who we met in Germany, I stayed at her place in London etc. But it was completely random. She didn't even recognize me cuz I had such long hair and a nasty beard. Good times! On the night train back to Bangkok, we had a hoot with the train crew. One of the tourist policemen wanted our empty bottle of Beefeater, so I got a picture with him (he even gave me his hat and he wore my Oilers cap!!) Pretty funny stuff. We were also pouring drinks for one of the waiters, it was a pretty funny night.

Pics:

1) Wat Phrathat steps and I (306 steps lead to the temple)

2) The entrance to Wat Phrathat

3) A Chinese style Buddha

4) A Thai style Buddha in the temple

5) Buddha's for each day of the week (you can make a donation based on what day of the week you were born for good luck)

6) Traditional Northern Thai dancing at dinner

7) The jungle trek

8) A rainbow after a nice terrential downpour

9) Me eating a bug

10) Jordan playing with the locals

11) The soccer crew

12) Nan (our tour guide) and Jordan rocking out to traditional Hill Tribe song and dance

13) An elephant and I

14) Jordan, Mel and I in the night market in Chiang Mai

15) Sean bungy jumping (no pics of me, Jordan took a video instead...trying to upload it, we'll see)

16) Team Bungy: Steve (Ottawa), Sean (NZ), Me (Edmonton), Laurie (Quebec), Jordan (Edmonton), and Alice (Melbourne)

17) The tourist police officer and I