Had an awesome day Wednesday. We had to move hotel because ours was booked, Tom found one just down the road for 350 baht (about £3.50 each) with aircon, best price of the trip so far.
We organised visa for Vietnam and a flight back to Bangkok.
We caught a tuk tuk to Chiang Mai zoo then changed to a taxi up into the mountains, they are called taxi's but are actually just old pick up trucks with two bench seats down either side. The road up the mountain was awesome, steep with lots of switchbacks. The views over Chiang Mai were awesome albeit a bit hazy. Up the top was a big temple, with 300 odd steps leading up to it.
On the way back from the temple we had to stop st the zoo, so we went in for s look around, was pretty good apart from seeing the elephants being rode by tourists, the 'driver' had what was basically an axe to controlling th direction of the elephant.
We then returned to the hotel and went out for a meal. The restaurant had what were basically cut off oil drums converted into BBQ's out the front, he was cooking fish on them and they were awesome with a bit of stir fried veg.
When we left the meal we bumped into Jo, Claire and Archie who we met previously at our hotel. They were going to the muay Thai fight swell. The muay Thai fight was really good, the talent was unreal, the last fight was a Dutch girl vs a Thai girl, the Dutch girl finished it in 20 secs, with a kick to the head!
We finished our beers then headed to a bar with live music which was nice, we met a pair of French guys who we went onto another drinking spot with outside of town, the four of us travelled in a tuk tuk which is designed to carry 2. It sat in the front on a battery.
The drinking spot was basically a load of sheds with bars and clubs set up in them, we had a few more beers and a bit of a dance. By this stage we were pretty merry so we decided to walk back to our hotel, I was convinced I could remember the way. I was wrong, we ended up walking through the back streets of Chiang mai. We were walking for a fair while then come across a propper Thai market, this was about 4.30 am, thousands of Thais buying and selling food, cutting veg, slicing meat, pretty amazing sight and it was huge, took over a good few streets.
So by this point we had no idea where we were. I asked a couple of people who were cutting veg, the guy said jump in the back of his pick up and he would take us to the hotel. So me and Tom jumped into he back of the pick up and he took us back to our hotel, I was standing up in the back holding onto the cab, pretty fun!
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