Old Town Chiang Mai

شايع ٿيل: 19.10.2017

Hello to Germany 🇩🇪

Today we left early. The Old Town of Chiang Mai, with its magnificent temple tour, was on our agenda 😊. The hotel manager advised us to bring an umbrella. There was a typhoon on the way 🙉. Well, I thought, then I don't need to apply sunscreen. I just applied mosquito repellent and that was it 😜.

We took a taxi to the Old Town gate and continued on foot from there. It was very nice that the sun came out. It must have been a pleasant 45 degrees 🙉. No 'umbrella or typhoon', there were clouds in the sky from time to time, but they were harmless.

In the heat, I was actually grateful for every temple we could enter 😬. They were all air-conditioned. A ceremony was taking place in one temple. Two men in white dresses knelt before an old monk, and 6 to 8 other monks surrounded them. The old head monk spoke and sang something. Eventually, he gave the two orange robes 😊. They stood up and returned after a short time, dressed in the robes. We learned from a Thai woman that Buddhist ceremonies were being conducted in some temples today 🤗. We just assume that the two young men were admitted into the order of monks! But that could also be wrong 🤓. It's just our theory 😜!

After our extensive temple tour, we strengthened ourselves with delicious Thai food and went to a local travel agency 🙂. We wanted to get an overview of all the tour options. We also directly booked a jungle tour for tomorrow, with 'extreme adventure' a la Dragon Flight. Oh, I am excited to see what that will be like 🙉😬!

Full of anticipation and so that we are relaxed and easy-going tomorrow, we treated ourselves to a 30-minute back/neck/head massage. 😜 I really enjoyed the massage. At first, I was skeptical because 100 baht (2.50€) for half an hour seemed very cheap to me, considering that I would pay 25€ for that at home🙃. No, it was really good and I am so relaxed 😂!

As relaxed as we were, we wanted to visit the night market 😁. We reached it at nightfall🙂. That meant shopping 😬😬😬😬😬, yippi!

Although I have to admit, with the humidity, it is not very enjoyable to shop, but we were still very successful 😂. Hm, when trying on a t-shirt, I discovered my sunburn 😶🙉 on my neck and décolleté! Daniela also asked me in horror, 'didn't you apply sunscreen today'? Nooooooo, only the mosquito stuff and besides, it was supposed to rain 🙉! Well, it's not that bad, I will survive 🙃.

We made some good bargains and then went to the Food Market. There we bought something to eat. The Food Market was really well set up, we were thrilled 😊! Just as we finished our meal, it started to drizzle🌧. We quickly got a tuk-tuk and as soon as we sat in it, well how do I put it best? It poured down like buckets. The tuk-tuk driver had to close all the curtains so we wouldn't get wet🙉! In the hotel, we had to take big umbrellas because the small one couldn't handle the amount of water😂.

Now it has stopped again, that's the nice thing here. The rain showers last at most 30 minutes and then it's over 😜!

Well, I'm exhausted 😌😴, good night and see you tomorrow, greetings from Chiang Mai🤗

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ruthyscott1
Hallo ihr Zwei! Komme gerade Heim, gönn mir noch nen Müsli und lese begeistert eure Geschichten! Ist wirklich eine andere Welt! Danke Änki dass du dir nach wie vor sooo viel Mühe machst!!! Bin mega gespannt auf eure Dschungeltour!🙃..wird bestimmt Adventure pur und aufregend! Hoffe auf ein Foto von Spiderman ☺...!! Auf jeden Fall wünsche ich euch viel Spaß und passt auf euch auf!! Liebe Grüße aus Germany von little Town MG...Sanni☺