Goodbye to Lid and Pod
2023年10月6日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
This afternoon we said goodbye to our guides Lid and Pod. They were excellent guides. Lid did enjoy taking about food and showing me pictures on his phone of all the food he talked about. I found thisもっと詳しく
Smile Lanna Hotel Chiang Mai
2023年10月6日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
Our home for the next 3 days.
Happy Hour
2023年10月6日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
This Hotel has a number of activities including Happy Hour from 2 to 4, we just made it. Tea and fresh fruit sitting in a lovely garden and bar.
Night Markets
2023年10月6日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Tonight, we went to what is advertised as the largest markets in Thailand. I would beg to differ. They did not seem that big. Hardly any people, which was great and not much variety. Dinner was alsoもっと詳しく
Wet morning in Chiang Mai
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
Woke up to a rainy day, just what you don't need for a morning of visiting temples. We also get a new guide.
Temples
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 24 °C
This morning we will be visiting 4 temples, Wat Phra Singh, Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Chiang Man, Wat Suan Doc. All these temples same but different. There are over 300 temples here many are privatelyもっと詳しく
7 days of Buddha
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Traditionally it is believed that Buddha spent 7 days following his enlightenment thinking of the suffering of all living creatures and how unimportant his life was prior to reachingもっと詳しく
Monday - Carol
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
The posture of the Monday Buddha is one where the figure is standing with its right hand raised at shoulder height with the palm facing out. It represents Buddha pacifying the relatives afterもっと詳しく
Wednesday - John
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
The Wednesday Buddha posture is one where it is standing with both hands wrapped around a bowl. The statue signifies caring for others. While many initially believed that the statue illustrated aもっと詳しく
Wat Chiang Man
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
This temple had paintings all around the walls depicting the stages of the of how the Prince became Budha the enlightened.
Wat Phra Singh
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
This temple had a display of bees wax monks which are incredibly lifelike, from outside the temple I thought they were real monks.
Wat Suan Dok
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Wat Suan Dok is one of the oldest temples in Chiang Mai. Created by Phaya Kue Na during the Mengrai dynasty. This temple was originally the Royal Park of the early Thai Lanna Kings.
I wrote ourもっと詳しく
Around The Hotel
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
Our tour today was only half day, so we have free time at the Hotel. So, we started with a short walk and then morning tea.
Poolside
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Lunch fish and chips and Quinoa Salad and then relaxing poolside reading.
Saturday Market's
2023年10月7日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Tonight, we visited the Saturday Night Markets they were much better than yesterday's night market. They were busy with lots of stalls. We had dinner from street vendors and walked home.
Elephant Camp
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Today we are visiting an elephant camp where they look after mistreated and injured elephants.
Feeding the Elephants
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Being so close to the elephants was so much fun.
Jungle Walk
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Lunch Time
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 26 °C
Time for our lunch which included us cooking some of our own dishes. I made Pad Thai and John made the Papaya Salad.
Protein Mix
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
We then mushed up banana, pumpkin, salt , tamarind, cane sugar and rice with our hands and put the mixture back into the banana skin to feed the elephants some protein. Very messy especially with myもっと詳しく
Health Check
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
In the Mud
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Wash and Scrub
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Goodbye
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Our day at the Elephant camp has come to an end it was so much fun.
A funny thing did happen an Elephant trod on my foot surprising it only hurts a little. No bruising yet but a slight throb.
Drive Home
2023年10月8日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
The drive home was just over an hour. At the Elephant camp the weather great however halfway home and it bucketed down, the traffic was slow, and the roads flooded. Once back at the Hotel the rainもっと詳しく
旅行者How good to have such good guides for that chunk of your trip.
旅行者Maybe he got his name Lid, for being “top” of his tour guide class. Or maybe he got the name from always taking home food in a take away container but by the time he got home the lid was removed and the food all consumed…