Soon we'll be crossing the border from Thailand to Laos. The last three days were really great. Hopefully a taste of what's to cone next. After taking the bus into Chiang Mai, we decided to take "the lonely planet"'s advice and go to Julie guest house; anyone who goes to Chiang Mai, I suggest you do the same. Walking into the guest house foyer at 6 in the morning, other travelers were awaiting as well--signs noticing the travelers to relax on the furniture until they open at eight. Once 8 rolled around the guest house came alive with bustling tourists and workers serving breakfast and filling vacancies. The room was another double bed with shared bathrooms for about 6 dollars a night--kinda ridiculously awesome if you ask me.
Check in was at ten thirty so we decided to walk around. Again, like Bangkok, guest houses were everywhere, and places for food were even more plentiful. Instead of going to a place that served all kinds of food we wanted something more traditional. We stopped at a place where no one was in there and didn't look like any tourists would be there. It didn't seen like breakfast food but the noodles and chicken that was served was delicious, definitely traditional Thai and exactly what I was looking for coming to Thailand--an Anthony Bourdain type of food experience.
We then wondered off for a couple more hours seeing the different shops they have that seemed to be repetitive--guest house, restaurant, bar, repeat. But there were unique temples we stumbled across as well, which were really beautiful.
After check in and the necessary shower, we decided to book a cooking class for that night, and wander some more until then. Considering we booked a trek into the mountains for the next morning, we decided to get our feet cleaned by fish; an interesting experience to say the least. There were a bunch of fish just cleaning our feet which tickled the whole time, but actually got used to it--"happy feet by Dr. fish" was everywhere in Chiang Mai. Later, we found this one restaurant "spoon de best" which was run by this amazingly polite cute woman who took pictures of us for her wall. She said it was a fairly new place but the food she cooked was so traditionally Thai compared to the touristy restaurants around. We got some pork slices topped with this really spicy chili sauce that was sooooo good but spicy enough that I cried. A couple Singha beers later and we were ready to cook. Check in was at ten thirty so we decided to walk around. Again, like Bangkok, guest houses were everywhere, and places for food were even more plentiful. Instead of going to a place that served all kinds of food we wanted something more traditional. We stopped at a place where no one was in there and didn't look like any tourists would be there. It didn't seen like breakfast food but the noodles and chicken that was served was delicious, definitely traditional Thai and exactly what I was looking for coming to Thailand--an Anthony Bourdain type of food experience.
We then wondered off for a couple more hours seeing the different shops they have that seemed to be repetitive--guest house, restaurant, bar, repeat. But there were unique temples we stumbled across as well, which were really beautiful.
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