Chiang Mai calling
I love the weather in Chiang Mai! Wish KL had that weather every day. Shopping is good too but not as cheap as Bangkok. Of course, Bangkok had more choices too. Girls in Chiang Mai are definitely fairer and prettier but not necessarily hotter…hahahaha. Massages in Chiang Mai are soooo cheap and pretty good. Had this Burma girl do my leg and it was absolutely fantastic!
Besides shopping and temples, there isn’t much to do in Chiang Mai itself so we took a day tour to Chiang Rai and up the border of Myanmar and Laos, or more famously known as the Golden Triangle. Visiting the Tribal center was also an eye opener where you get to see and experience the way of life of the hill tribe people. There are about 4 or 5 different tribes there (Karen longneck, Akho and I can’t remember the rest). Crossing the Mekong river to Laos was also great.
On our 3 1/2 hours drive back from Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai, we passed by some really old school trunk roads and unfortunately, we saw a car that crashed by the roadside. The Avanza was pretty messed up, 4 occupants, 2 sons and parents. They were just crawling out of the car when we passed by. Naturally, we went down to help. The driver was hurt real bad, I’m sure he has internal bleeding. The mother had a cut just above the eyes, the father was bleeding profusely form the head and the other son was pretty alright.
The worst thing about all this, when I arrived at the wreckage, the car radio had this song on - Daniel Powter’s Bad Day…so ironic, I felt goose bumps! To my suprise, the ambulance came within 10 minutes…which was lightning fast because we were in the middle of no where!!!Such efficiency these Thai people I tell you.
On the last day in Chiang Mai, I actually did some self-walking tour around town. Visited a few temples and took a couple of nice pictures I think. I felt sad having to leave Thailand and be back in KL. Sigh…KL holds nothing for me now.
