July 5, 2011

Travel Chiang Mai --- (2)


เที่ยวเชียงใหม่ --- (2)

Hey!!, Hey!!!, wake up!!!!" my mother shouting to wake me and my brother up. Its 7.30 in the morning. My mother call a taxi to come take us travel for a whole day which he will come to pick us up at 8.30. We take a shower and get dress then go to eat breakfast at the hotel restaurant which offer us buffet Thai foods, and American breakfast. Finally after finished breakfast, the taxi arrived, we get in and head for our first destination:

1st Destination: Doi Suthep, My mother booked a taxi to take us around for 1 day which will cost us 1500 baht we went to PHRATHAT DOI SUTHEP TEMPLE first and take a lift to go up there we go up to the and take a picture there for sometime which it is very beautiful golden pagoda which said to have the original pieces of bones of the lord Buddha within it, the weather up here is great as well. as we are high up in the mountain, there are cloud which you can see it as fog and it provide a cool breeze to your skin. After that, we went down to the entrance and go another way to the stairs ( you can go up to the PHRATHAT DOI SUTHEP TEMPLE 2 ways either by lift or walking) we take a picture at the bottom of the stair and go to another location close to it which is a jade factory. They let us see how they craft a jade to a valuable artwork and Buddha then we head to our next location. On the way to second sites as we drive down the mountain, we found a foreigner which must have been in an accident during riding their Motorcycle because the street on the way up to the mountain is pretty hard to drive with many curves on the way. So, be careful if you rent a motorcycle to go by yourself.

Chiang Mai
View from my hotel room (Chiang Mai Phucome Hotel)

Doi Suthep
The Lift shaft which take us up to the PHRATHAT DOI SUTHEP TEMPLE


Lift ticket chiang mai
Lift ticket

Golden pagoda
Golden Pagoda

golden pagoda doi suthep

2nd Destination: Borsang, Silk village, and silver craft. Which for the first site, Borsang is a site where they made umbrella, traditional umbrella with painting and artwork on it. The umbrella is made of woods and paper or fabric. Here they offer the tourist a painting at a cost about 50 baht to paint anything like the cellphone to their shirt with great skill in art. It will takes about 5 to 10 minutes to draw which the time it takes will be up to how big the picture is. And other than that, there are souvenir for the tourist sells here which in my thought, not very good for Thai travelers because there are no indications of Chiang Mai, just normal souvenir of Thailand. Before we go out we found two tourist arguing with the driver of the red truck (Red truck is like taxi in Chiang Mai) they cant make a deal with the driver because they want the driver to wait for 3 hours but the taxi want more money (300) because they agree 2 hours for 200 at first before they come with longer wait time I understand the driver so we help negotiate and they pay 100 and find new caps to get home when they finished touring the site.
After that we go to The Thai silk village which they show us how they make silk from raising a silkworm to a cocoon state then boil it and make it to silk which it is very interesting to see how they produce raw silk and turn it into a fine silk they sell. We buy some souvenir and then we go to silver craft factory with notmuch to see.
this is 1 pm already so we head to have lunch in town.

borsang umbrella
Borsang, Umbrella village

silk
Look at how they make Thai silk from the beginning

Destination 3: Khao Sawy (Northern Thai Noodle Curry Soup) Shop which the taxi said to be very famous in Chiang Mai. Its does taste good and you must come to try it. Its located next to Fah Harm temple.

Khao sawy
Khao Sawy (Northern Thai Noodle Curry Soup)

And the Final destination: haha last destination for today is the Chiang Mai Zoo, which we come here and buy the ticket then go inside. You can choose to walk around the zoo yourselves or buy a bus ticket for only 20 baht per round around the zoo which you can not ride back to terminal one if you are at terminal two so we go to see a famous Pandas first. Which we have to pay extra of 50 per person (for Thais adult) we go in to see them and after that go to the next terminal which is the aquarium. To go in the aquarium, you must have an extra ticket which you can buy it here at the aquarium or buy at the front gates when you come in so, we already buy it at the front gate so we go in immediately. It was very great in here, there are many fishes and sea animal and many of the creature live in the river as well. And waking under the longest aquarium in the South East Asia is a very fun and good experience. We can take a picture with the diver if we see him. After long fun walk here we go to take a bus to the entrance, we didnt went down to next terminal because we are tired and want to rest , although there is so much to see here we want to come back later if we can haha.

Panda chiang mai zoo
The famous Panda of Chiang Mai Zoo

After that we go to the entrance and head to the hotel and guess what, the hotel is spraying mosquitoes pesticide so they have to move our room to the eightth floor, what the hell!!!! well ok so we go and get our things and move to new room which on the opper floor (originally we are at 5th floor) and guess what, the internet not work at this room. haha what a waste of time and feeling. So, i called the lobby which they send the technician to see the internet connection but its not work because the signal is too low. so i request another room they let me try to use the internet at the other room its works fine but i have to move only 1 room. huh we request that the room must be close to each other so i decline and they said that they will find a new room for us in the morning. and we get it in the morning. this is it for one day tired I sleep zZZZZZ.


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