Here is the gold clock tower in the centre of town. It was at a round about in the centre of a busy intersection. The whole street was lined with golden light poles along the centre of the road. Very impressive day and night.
We did a jungle trek as we thought we just should as it's what everyone else did. Luckily we only did a short one for 3 hours and that was enough. We traversed some pretty dense jungle and very narrow paths on the side of a river. We had no desire to repeat the experience but at least we did it. The couple with us were from La Reunion Island (near Mauritious). He was a doctor and she was a nurse so we were in good hands if anything happened. They were such a lovely couple also so we did enjoy our day. The later photos of the elephant ride was on the same day.
We did a jungle trek as we thought we just should as it's what everyone else did. Luckily we only did a short one for 3 hours and that was enough. We traversed some pretty dense jungle and very narrow paths on the side of a river. We had no desire to repeat the experience but at least we did it. The couple with us were from La Reunion Island (near Mauritious). He was a doctor and she was a nurse so we were in good hands if anything happened. They were such a lovely couple also so we did enjoy our day. The later photos of the elephant ride was on the same day.
A most important photo for us to remember. One of the many Chang beers we shared.
Here's the jungle photo and then part of the walk. We visited our guides village and had tea at his hut. Interesting to see how the villagers live.
We did the traditional elephant ride here. It was a good experience as the relationship between the elephant and their mahout was good. The elephants seemed to be very happy. We went through the river for 1 km.
The Saturday night market took over the main street in Chiang Mai and we were lucky enough to be there. This shows the street lit up at night.
What Won Krung - the white temple was a highlight of our time in Chiang Rai. A very unconventional temple. The dream of one man. It was just so amazing and very hard to reproduce in a photo. It was white with mirrors inserted and was blinding on a sunny day. But oh so beautiful. It was bizarre to find paintings of Hollywoods super heroes on the internal walls. We found it hard to determine the message being given, but they were all 'good' superheroes.
This was the toilet complex. Pretty flash!!!
The Saturday night market took over the main street in Chiang Mai and we were lucky enough to be there. This shows the street lit up at night.
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