Crossed to Laos yesterday, slow boat to Pak Beng today.
In the boat 1130 to 1700, tomorrow we set of for Luang Prabang at 0930.
Might get some pix up when my wifi isn’t running on the laptop that provides the Bob Marley to the Happy Bar.
Month: October 2016
leaving Chiang Mai
Blood moon out there last night.
Out past the frangipani
Breakfast this morning.
Someone has to make all the shrines that are about the place I guess.
Temples.
This is a model of the old town part of Chiang Mai.
This was the start of a big market area.
The Central Festival Mall in Chiang Mai. 5 floors of all sorts of things.
Heading off to Laos tomorrow to take a boat down to Luang Prabang on Wednesday. A 2 day trip off grid on the Mekong.
to the local market
Using the machinery below the guy was making fresh coconut milk.
And bagging it up.
Almost met my match with spicy fish ball and egg soup at lunch time today, luckily I had a mango/passion fruit smoothie to help me along.
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I was hoping to get a chance to work out how to make this blog bizzo work a bit better, but don’t see it happening at the moment. So on with the tablet interface.
more Chiang Mai
The top 3 images are Martins place, then the alley it is on then the street that runs off.
The bottom one a wall decoration at one of the temples.
Chiang Mai
Dinner with Martin and Lisa in Chang Mai
The smokes is from dry ice infused cereal. It was a market selling heaps of really tempting food.
Associated with a big mall, with a metal detector to pass through to get in, I and everyone else set it off but got waved through.
And on the day they stopped alcohol sales for 2 days to mourn the king, I discover they have a selection of tempting looking Weizen Beer.
more Bangkok
Wandered a bit more purposefully, and with more comfortable shoes.
There are clumps of shops, like a cluster of electronics places, and people outside on the street fixing TV and car stereos.
Then a clump of music instruments and uniforms.
And of course passed more temples and palaces on the way.
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Up to a bridge, across and down the other side to the next one and back.
Not sure what the soldiers were really up to…
But they were friendly enough.
Am now back to my marathon/4 running footwear.
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Wandered about a bit, bought crucial part of battery charging infrastructure, had a latte at Starbucks, really learned an appreciation of air conditioning.
Was struck by the number and ornateness of palaces and temples, and how many places had guards, armed or not.