We arrived in Chiang Mai yesterday morning after a very fun train journey from Bangkok. It was a night sleeper train, duration 15 hours. After hanging around in Bangkok station for most of Monday it was nice getting into the air conditioned wagon.
It was a bit of an eye opener as we left bangkok, the railway was lined with shanty town like buildings, their homes were built inches from the train, a very poor area.
We were tired from only having a few hours sleep the night before and Tom said in passing that he hopes there's not noisey people next to us so we could get some good sleep. It turned out the noiseyist group of Americans were sat opposite having a party. We ended up having a few drinks with them in the end.
There was a restaurant car which turned into a lively bar at night. We met loads of other travellers and had a good crack. Lots of people all packed into one carriage all drinking and dancing. Slightly different than the first great Western train to Paddington!
We woke up and saw the sunrise over the Thai countryside which was nice.
We are staying in nice hotel inside the walled city. Today we went to a Buddhist temple where we sat amongst monks singing prayers.
This evening we are about to head out to a night bazaar.
Chiang Mai is a lot quieter and relaxed then Bangkok where locals stop for a chat and aren't just trying to sell us something. There's a nice vibe here.
We've had some awesome food so far, the Thai green curry was amazing and pad Thai today was awesome, a big feed of stir fried noodles, chicken and nuts for 60 baht which is about £1.10.
Tomorrow we are going to do some sort of activity, maybe go to an elephant sanctuary, or trek in the jungle. Also tomorrow night we are going to a muay Thai stadium to watch a Thai kickboxing fight, muay Thai is Thailand's national sport.
Bye for now.
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