After our adventures in Bangkok, we took a VIP night bus up to Chiang Mai. The buses in Thailand, are actually really a great way to travel around. If you get a first class ticket for around $15, you get a seat that reclines almost all the way back, a blanket, a pillow, water, fruit juice, and some snacks! We left Bangkok at 11:30 pm and arrived in Chiang Mai at 9 am the following day all rested up.
Chiang Mai is a university town, with coffee shops on every corner and great restaurants, but not much more than that. However, it is a good center point to visit the White Temple, The Golden Triangle, and go jungle trekking.
Our first day in Chiang Mai we signed up for a cooking class. It was a really fun experience! There were only 2 other couples so it felt very comfortable and intimate. We picked our menu out together - Dtom Yum Goong (Shrimp and coconut soup), Pud See Yoo Gai (Stir fried thick rice noodles with chicken), Gaeng Kieow Wan Gai (Chicken with Green Curry) where we had made the curry paste by hand with all fresh ingredients, and lastly for dessert Glooay Tord (Fried bananas with thick coconut toffee!)
The lady was very nice and spoke English well. The food was absolutely delicious. And we got a recipe book at the end. So now we can try to attempt these recipes in Italy!
After a night of cooking, the next morning we were up bright and early to head into the jungle for some trekking, with an overnight stay without electricity, sleeping with the animals. It was a pretty quick drive in the back of a truck. First we stopped at a waterfall to have lunch which they gave us pre- "wrapped" and got a swim in. Then we started hiking, crossing rivers, through rice paddies, up and over the hills to our final destination.
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| Oh! Just some fried rice is inside! |
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| Mystery wrapped lunch |
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| Dinner by candle light |
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| Where we slept |
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| It was raining the next morning, so we had to put on our ponchos |
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