Today I had planned to leave Bangkok but when I got to the train station it seemed everyone else had the same idea, so many people were trying to escape the floods that all flights buses and trains were fully booked for the day, luckily after a fair bit of searching I managed to sort out a bus for the next day to Chaing Mai. So this spare day I had not accounted for in the city I spent exploring Bangkok's china town and checking on the flooding situation.
That evening me and a few of the travellers from 'we bangkok' went to a live music bar, it was a great night but I think some of us suffered from pretty bad chaingovers in the morning. Thailand's premier beer is Chaing, it's a pretty cheap and strong beer, officially a 6% beer but is notorious for its wide range of strength depending on batch. so basically it can mess you up!
When we caught the bus to Chaing Mai we could see the extent of the flooding, the sandbag walls were barely holding the water off the main road and in some places it had been breached and the bus had to push on through. Apparently we were one of the first coaches to take this route since the flooding began, the journey is 15 hours long, any more of these and I am seriously concidering valium, so I hunkered down in my seat and crashed out.
Chaing Mai is surrounded by lush foothills and is far more relaxed environment than Bangkok but as Thailand's eleventh largest city there is still a lot going on, we stayed in Jai Dii
house within the old walls of the city,
We dropped our bags off and explored our milieu which consisted of many Buddhist temples the architecture is grand but it does get old seeing the same old giant buddah grining back at you inside each one! Chaing Mai also boasts some of the best night markets in Thailand, its mainly girly stuff though and you can barely move anywhere, food stalls are incredible though (i'm slightly addicted to bannana pancakes and the fresh fruit. We also saw preperations for the Loi Krathong Festival that we had stumbled apon by accident, Its an annual festival of the full moon where people light hundreds of lantens and fireworks! Later we went for a few drinks with some guys from San Fransico and saw Thai covers of western songs. Sex is on fire.
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