I would of loved to of been able to see myself as i arrived in Chinag Mai, i've probably mentioned it elsewhere but i have no luck in sleeping on the buses, so i'd basically been awake since leaving Phi Phi with only a few hours clocked up at best.
I was meant to be meeting up with Toby and Sam from the rock and when i arrived at their hostel was met with somewhat of a sympathetic laugh and then told we where off to the tiger park, and that i was going with.
So here i was looking in the face of a tiger with no cage, no wires, just a guy with a little straw whip. My body was still in Bangkok watching Avatar and my brain somewhere in Phi Phi, so to be here doing this was really a strange moment of surrealness.
That night i slept for close to 16 hours and just wrote the day off as a whole, i did give me the chance to catch up on emails and facebook i guess, plus we'd all signed up to do a cooking course the day after and my cooking skills are questionable at the best of times so i really didn't trust myself doing it half asleep.
Ok where next? Pai!
Pai's a crusty little hippy sort of place. I was sporting a rather fetching hobo-esq beard and still felt far over dressed for this crowd, 1 in 2 had dreads and the other half just looked like they'd never seen soap in their life. I don't mean that as an insult or anything as these where just the coolest of people in a very relaxed, laid back town. It also so happened to be slightly busier than usual due to the annual reggae festival. It had people camping, fire shows, a load of food stalls....a proper festival for 2 whole days, and i was simply in my element.
The day after that we had to take the bus back to Chiang Mai and then that following night a bus to Bangkok.
The last few days here in Bangkok have been spent ill in bed, i actually thought i'd go the entire time in Asia without being ill once........ dammit, but I'm off to the states shortly and feeling loads better.
[EDIT] I was probably a bit quick going through Chiang Mai on re-read, i mean have a look at the pictures and stuff because it's a stunning little place. Don Thiep is beautiful, the hostel (spicyThai) which i was staying at is easily one of the best and on top of that i got to spend my time with some of the nicest people i'd met so far.
Sorry Chiang Mai :(
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