Chiang Mai Day 1

We flew from Bali to Singapore had a quick 1 hour layover then arrived in Chiang Mai. The hotel had a driver pick us up and bring us to our hotel called Coucou, it is a new hotel located in old town Chiang Mai. We got settled in and walked to a local restaurant for dinner. After dinner we walked around a local food market, got cleaned up and went to bed.

Day 2- We woke up at 5:00am for a 6:30am Cultural tour. Which Included the following:

- Visit the hidden forest temple(a female monk temple), experience the process of making merit in Buddhist’s way (Taamboon, offer food, pouring holy water), experience monks chanting, get blessed from Buddhist monks, etc…
- Have breakfast at the temple (we ate the same breakfast as the monks after they finished)
- Stopped for a coffee at a local shop located off the road. Such a yummy smooth coffee!
- Visit the famous umbrella village “Ban Bosang village”
- Visit the famous silk making village
- Visit wood carving village “Ban Tawai”
- Lunch, at a beautiful restaurant over looking the water.
- In the afternoon visit two temples, 1. The holy temple “Wat Doikham” 2. The famous silver temple “Wat Srisuphan”

After the tour our driver took us a to a local spa where we got amazing massages. We got back to the hotel, Klaus had some work calls and I got cleaned up for the evening.

We went to a restaurant called Hummus for dinner, very nice change from Asian food. Amazing food and best baklava we have ever had. Walked back to the hotel, early morning of tours.Read more