We arrived in Bangkok around 11am and grabbed a taxi to the famous Kho Saan road. We checked into a crappy hostel there and set out on our Bangkok shopping adventure. I found loads of cool odds and ends there and kris got a bunch of tshirts but we could not find any cool knock off purses!! We looked EVERYWHERE! We had two funny tuk tuk experiences in bangkok while shopping.. The first one we grabbed avcidently popped a giant wheelie at a stop light and the second broke down for about ten minutes on the side if the road.. Finally we gave up looking and retired for a long night of listening to drunk people sung karaoke on kho saan rd while we tried to sleep. The next day we went to Chinatown and it checked out theives market. We figures this would be a likely place to find purses- but still we had no luck!! Eventually we asked someone who led us through about 4 stores deep into the market until we were basically in the basement if someone's house. There we could look at purses on a laptop and the. The little Thai guy would run upstairs and retrieve the one we wanted to see. Sooooooo dodgy!! We wound up going upstairs to his storage locker and ruffling through them all till we found a couple we wanted. Too funny!! They were super good quality though and resonanly priced!! Later that day we went to a buddist temple to see the famous recooning budda. A plaster statue covered in gold leaf if budda about to lay down and enter nirvana. It was HUGE!! about 20m long and 7m tall. After that we went back to kho saan and got our things together to catch a taxi to the airport. We made it to our flight on time and arrived in chiang mai around ten at night.
our first day in chiang mai we went to the tiager park where kris and I both snuggled up to baby lions names ben and dave (hahaha) and 3 600lb tigers. It was pretty intimidating but cool. We also went to the snake farm and saw a show with a cobra an annaconda and Thai jumping snakes!! I even held one of the Thai jumping snakes but kris was too scared. To his credit he did mister the courage to pet the cobra though... And so did the eight year old girl beside us. Not that anyone's judging ;-). Later that day I got heat stroke and spent the rest of the night in migraine and nausea hell. Not fun.
The next day we walked around chiang mai aimlessly checking out a few markets and relaxed in the sweltering heat. Kris jumped out of a tuk tuk and hurt his ankle so we laid pretty low. We did make it to the night market that night though which was pretty cool!! I bought a bunch of knock off necklaces there and some other gifts etc.
On our last day in chiang mai we had faaaantastic Thai massages and got organized for kris to catch his flight home. He left around nine pm and this morning I caught a mini bus to chiang khong which is where I am now. Tomorrow I am going to Laos by slowboat and will end up in luang probang after 2 long days. Sorry to keep this so short but I gotta make it back to my hostel to catch dinner at 7... Update soon and will add more details to this when I get a chance. HOLLA!!
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