Golden Triangle Ride: Chiang Mai Tourism

Chiang Mai needs over a week for proper tourism. There are elephant camps, tiger Kingdom, minimum four temples worth a visit, night bazaar, weekend bazaar, adventure events like bungee jumping and many more things. We had decided to keep our visit restricted to best of few but were assaulted by the heat. It had gone amazingly hot, more so after riding on hills and staying in hills for last year or so.

We, who come from a HOT country were with our tongues out for water, forehead full of sweat beads and face raw from wiping sweat......and this was supposed to be better that Bangkok. Locals were also astonished with a few Thai's known to have swooned in the heat wave.

After a good long nights sleep we lazed around and finally reached Tony Big Bikes by mid noon, and decided not to take BMW 800 GS as planned earlier but took one of the Honda 150 cc scooter. Duncan promised that it would take us up the hill and so it did. Relief of driving gear less scooty in traffic after driving a beast for last week was palpable.

We headed for Wat Doi Suthep and on reaching decided not to try the steps in the heat but opted for cable car or elevator as you would call it. This is one of the holiest pagoda in Chiang Mai with many Buddha postures including one of Emerald Buddha. Took our blessings from the monk on duty, prayed to almighty for a successful trip and headed back.

Sleeping Buddha

Emerald Buddha

In all his glory

One for the tourist moment

Dance by local children.....

Start of the steps

By end of the afternoon we decided to hit a mall for some aircon and visited Maya Lifestyle for our lunch. The heat forced us inside and we cancelled rest of our plans and just hit the room for dog sleep. Evening was spent in company of our new friends in Tiger Kingdom Restaurant, this was more of a good bye meeting for us as we had our flights booked for next day.