Chiang Mai with the Barnards

We arrived after a 14hr train journey into Chiang mai station and was driving to a beautiful hotel called the Rimping Hotel.
We had a family room, much to my pleasure :) sharing a bed with my sister is always what I want when I haven't seen her for 10 months.

We arrived early so we just sun bathed by the pool and got our tans going again. The sun was boiling and mother burnt her forehead...very fun I must say.
We walked around the night Market in the evening looking what they had to offer and just like everywhere in Thailand it was full of crap.

On our 2nd day we went a huge temple on the top of the mountain 15km from the city called Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep. It had lots of stairs so we got a lift up and walked the stairs down, yes I know no one is surprised.
We also went to Chiang Mai Zoo that day and saw Panda's which was actually amazingggggggg. I realised that I had never seen one before and there is only like 35 left in the world :( also lots of other animals, lots of pictures to upload.

Friday we walked around the old city where I had stayed previous when I went to Chiang Mai on the tour. I showed them everything I saw and took them to a really nice juice bar, obviously I didn't drink anything. We booked mum and flo's tattoos for that evening and went back that night to get them done and went back to a lovely restaurant by our hotel called Riverside, with live music and amazing tomato soup...yes I eat soup now :)

Saturday came round quick and I realised that my visa ran out on the Sunday so we had to do a 10hr trip up to Chiang Rai to see long neck tribes, the White temple and went to the Burma border to get another stamp for my following 2 weeks. Arriving back about 9pm that evening we were knackered and just had dinner in the hotel.

Our last day was spent around the pool again, I think I got sun stroke because I was all faint and dizzy that evening. We went to the Sunday Market which was nice and I got a Marc Jacobs make up bag :) of course the original :)

11am check out flying to Phuket and taxing to Khao Lak, we arrived around 5pm to another lovely hotel bit this time separate rooms. I'm still sharing with the smelly one but life goes on. Let's see what these 6 days brings us.

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