After the last night, I stood up at 2pm and startet the day slowly with strong thai coffee in a vegetarian restauerant (noticed it too late), so I had noodles with seaweed and loads of green stuff. - if it makes you look better, why not.
The next hours I walked the city of chiang mai, visiting 4 to 5 temples (as advised in lonely planet), closed with an one hour thai massage. God, I was so relaxed.
In the evening I met Charlie from Cornwall at the entrence of our guesthouse (12 Euros a night). We got along very well, thought he is 10 years younger than me. We ended up taking a midnight snack at a street vendor including some beers from the 7 Eleven next door.
"there is always the option for another one"
Great night talking + creating a blog within 3min, Thank you Charlie
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24th Nov.
Highly expecting the call from the baggage service at the airport I checked the best flights to Chiang Mai today on the internet.
9:30am they called me, informing that my bag will come with the 12am flight from Dubai. Perfect start into the day.
I took the bus to the airport (150Baht), booked a flight at 2:15pm to Chiang Mai with Thai Air, collected my rucksack at 1pm just to check it in immediately afterwards.
Off I went to Chiang Mai, one day later than expected, but on business class.
Taking the guesthouse Jacky Tour for 500Baht a night (12 Euro) I decided for the night safari at this day. The tour was gorgeous (6pm to 10pm). Never before I saw so many wild animals very very very close to me. For example 4 out of 200 white tigers worldwide. Check out this link for more:
http://www.chiangmainightsafari.com/en/home.htm
Of course we had to take a picture stroking a tiger after the tour. Hey, when do you ever get the chance to stroke a tiger for 250baht (5 Euros)??
Beside of the tour, also the other participants were great. 2 swedish guys, one english and one japanese girl. As we got along very well we decided to go for a beer afterwards.
That was really great to meet you Yuka and Rob.
We signed our tiger pictures and had good fun in a very touristic bar "chiang mai saloon".
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23rd Nov.
After 22h of traveling, I arrived in BKK airport. A pity, that my baggage didn't come with me. I should have known it when checking my backpack in as "oversize baggage". As this has happened to me once before I luckily had the basic things in my hand luggage. Anyway, this really was not the start I have had expected.
So I signed some baggage papers, negotiated some compensation payment and got on the bus downtown, to Kaoh San Rd. And immediately I was reminded why I didn't like that place that much. Checked in the nearest guesthouse (pannee lodge) to the bus station and got on the Kaoh San Road which was of course packed with drunken tourists at 8pm.
In a garage near Kaoh San I took my first Singha and Thai food. Recovering a little. In another backyard I found a small thai restaurant with some tourists. Talking to an US tourist who also got to BKK after Laos and Kambotscha, unreal things happened, as they only can happen in Thailand:
A baby elephant walked bye, feeding for 20baht. The colleague from the US of course did it. Right after that, at approx. 10pm the waiters began singing happy birthday and also invited us to join eating the birthday cake -- 22pm!
So these little scenes compensated a lot, now I knew I am in Thailand.
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