Sawasdee Ka!

My Soup Guy at Kalare Food Court


Tuesday - 17 June 08





Hello again everyone! We have had a very good day today again. It was raining when we awoke this morning and looked like it was setting in for the day. We decided today to go back to the Doi Suthep Temple and spend some more time there. We would like to have gone to the Inthanon Temple which is 100km from Chiang Mai and on the highest peak of Thailand, but no taxi drivers wanted to take us unless we did the whole day tour thing and went to other places as well, which is a whole day. We are doing the long tour day Thursday for our visa run, we really just wanted to see that Temple,but no go!





We had breakfast at maccas and then hailed the Songteaw to take us up the mountain to the Doi Suthep Temple that we had visited last week on our half day tour. It was still raining but hey what the heck. Our Songteaw driver agreed to a price of 500 baht ($17 Aus) to drive us up the mountain to the temple, there wait for an hour or two for us and then drive us back down the mountain to our hotel. Cheap as chips!





It was a hairy ride going up there around the hairpin bends in this vehicle and it was a little fumy too which make Rick feel a little unwell. It was worth it to get up to the temple again and spend more time there. It continued to rain but it keeps things cool so it didn't bother us. I took ship loads more photos and if you scroll down at the end of this blog there are two more pages of photos. I decided Rick and I should ask for a blessing from the Monk in the temple and so we waited and the monk was happy to oblige. He asked us where were from and spoke really good english. He went on to give us the blessing with his buddhist chant and during it shook wet incense sticks over the tops of our heads. He then blessed us for a Safe Journey and Prosperity and Good Luck, it was awsome. We gave our usual donation of 100 baht. I bought a couple of books and we looked around for a while longer then headed down the 300 steps to the bottom, jumped in the Songteaw, headed back down the mountain and to our hotel.





Rick wasn't feeling the best for the rest of the afternoon, he thinks it may have been a combination of the fumes from the Songteaw and our daily malaria tablet. So he slept and I read until it was time to go out for dinner. We headed off down the main drag of Changklan Rd to a small western restaurant as we felt like something different for dinner. We had pork chop or steak, couldn't tell, it was okay but wished I had stuck to my soup man. We then headed back to the hotel as Rick still not 100% and I wanted to get the blog done before it gets too late. Hope everyone is enjoying the photos, I have now taken 900 photos since being in Thailand. Not much else to tell so Until Tomorrow! Kob n Chai!