Chiang Rai color tour

So what to say about Chiang Rai. It definitely does not have the charm of old town Chiang Mai. Nontheless, we found a driver who took us to 3 temples-informally the White and Blue temples and the black museum. These are less temples and more art museums, with the actual artists footing the bill from what I understand…or maybe part of the bill. The architect of the white temple (which really is fairly magnificent and not yet finished) has a gallery of his paintings and sculptures, whimsical and intricate all. He also designed a very intricate clock tower in the middle of the city. The Black museum was interesting in that there were various buildings in the styles of different peoples and hill tribes of northern Thailand. Our “tour guide” clearly knew very little about the art.

I would be remiss if I didn’t write about me screwing up the electronic lock on our Airbnb. There is a mosquito door that apparently you can’t close and also close and lock the main door. Of course I did. The door would not open and now somehow (coincidence maybe?) the electronics on the door are all screwed up. Not sure why the mosquito screen would affect the door except maybe because it was jammed? Dunno. The poor owner had to climb in through the window (which frankly wasn’t very hard, so not too sure about security, but oh well. Now someone from the door lock company has to come all the way from Bangkok to fix it. I feel pretty terrible about it. Sigh.Read more