The Bro Trip

We did it. After searching for the sun and a clear blue sky for a month, we finally found it in Chiang Mai, in the northern part of Thailand. You don't really get more inland than this, so the beaches of the south will have to wait.

We flew here from Koh Samui, desperately trying to get some sun. After our diving course on Koh Tao, we thought we could find the sun on Koh Samui. We didn't. Rain, thunderstorms and just cloudy. And that was the forecast for the next 7 days at least. We had enough. We went to the airport on Koh Samui about 9 o'clock in the morning, without tickets. Walked up to the first ticket office we found and asked for two tickets to Chiang Mai. They were a lot more expensive than we thought, so we discussed it and checked the web for lower prices. We couldn't find any cheaper than that and almost missed our plane because we were stalling. We actually begged them to sell us the tickets, so it took us 15 minutes from the moment we bought the tickets until we were on the plane!

We've been here in Chiang Mai for 6 days. Sunny and about 30 degrees every day. Finally! Though, we've been really inactive. Just been lying by the pool every day after breakfast, enjoying life. It's a really nice city. A cultural and educational city. But we're tired of temples. They do have other things in Chiang Mai. Tomorrow we're going to do an elephant trekk and the day after tomorrow, we may visit tiger kingdom and pet the tigers, can't be dangerous, can it?


Chiang Mai.


Our sanctuary.


First night in Chiang Mai at a mobile bar.

Two nights ago we were out celebrating Marcus, it was his birthday and also the king of Thailand's birthday. But we didn't celebrate him, we're not very fond of him. We met up with some friends that we've met earlier on our trip - Erin, Hannah & Tim. We all went out for dinner and then moved on to the bars. However, because of the king's birtday, many bars and clubs were closed! And 7-eleven wouldn't even sell beer. Took us a  while but we found a place in the end. Had a really good night and got home about 3 o' clock.


Dinner with friends - Hannah, Tim, Marcus, Chris & Erin.


Birthday boy was happy.

Yesterday, Liz came to Thailand and to Chiang Mai and has now joined our trip. So Chris n' Liz spent the day together and Marcus had a cooking class that was really nice! Today we went to the zoo, saw some cool animals like pandas, white tigers, koalas, jaguars, gibbons and elephants. It was a nice zoo. Lots of interesting animals. That's all for today. Hopefully we'll give you a new update tomorrow!


A lazy, drooling panda.


Hungry fellah?

/ C & M