On the move once again

Today we packed up our things and made the journey to Chiang Rai. The mini bus was picking us up between 9 and 9:30 so we went to have a breakfast before our journey began. The journey was said to take 3 hours but you never know how accurate that will be and whether they include breaks into these timings. The journey was surprisingly quick. I've really got into a book I bought so that probably helped the journey go a lot quicker. We had 3 stops in total which I was surprised about for such a short drive. One for the toilet, one for lunch but we held off until we arrived and one for a visit to the white temple on the outskirts of Chiang Rai, our final destination. We only had 30 minutes here so we decided not to enter the temple and wait until we did a day trip over the next couple of days. We didn't want to be rushed at a place so beautifully decorated. We simply admired from afar and went and got a sprite instead! We continued on and not long later we had arrived. We spent a while getting our barings and trying to find the place we are staying in and finally we did. It's a lovely complex of single storey guest house rooms around a central courtyard which has the most gorgeous flooring tiles! Ones I need in my future bathroom for sure. We had some time researching and planned to head out for food but the heavens opened heavily and it rained and poured for a good half an hour so our very late lunch actually became dinner. We ate at s lovely restaurant and had a Japanese Katsu curry each, something I feel we have both been missing! We've booked onto a heavy 11 hour tour tomorrow which goes to around 8 sites including the temple we saw today so we're up early for that. Unfortunately we have discovered we have a karaoke style bar or something behind our guesthouse as all we can hear is the thumping music and singing. Hopefully it ends soon and we get some peace!Lue lisää