Chiang Mai
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Cooking and Trekking
Besides looking at wats all day, we did two other major activities- a cooking course and a three day trek.
We started the cooking course by learning about the many different vegetables of southeast asia at a local market.
Then for the rest of the day we just cooked and ate. There's me making Pad Thai (mmm....), and Mark making Deep Fried Bananas (mmm....!), and me eating Spicy Salad (yum!). It's all soooo good.
Our trek started about 2.5 hours northeast of Chiang Mai, near the Myanmar/Burma border. It was a really good trek. We walked through 6 somewhat remote villages (it's hard to get very remote nowadays in Thailand), and we had a fun group that we trekked with. We stayed overnight at two Akha villages and ate some really great food.
This waterfall was actually cold!
The walking was very scenic, through rice fields, banana trees, and jungly forests.
Here's the small village where we stayed the first night, and that's the shack that we slept in.
She may look harmless, but she's a fiesty one! If she wants to sell you something, she WILL sell you something! Some of the ladies in these villages like to sell bracelets and other native crafts to us trekkers- she was the most insistent though!
We trekked part of the way on elephants. They don't treat the elephants very nicely in Thailand, so I won't be trekking on any elephants again- but it was still nice to see them.
Here's some chicks enjoying a nice lunch of elephant poo.
This is the big village we stayed at the second night. The kids there were very friendly and we ended up having a lot of fun at this village.
Our house.
The village just had this very exposed shower to use. There was just one bamboo wall blocking the view from the village, and behind the wall far away was a large field with workers. I think they were too far away to really be able to see anything, but still, I felt so exposed!
On the last day, we took a bamboo raft down the Ping River.
