Continuing north through Thailand I reached Chaing Mai a great town to spend a little time shopping and generally relaxing between extreme activities such as white water rafting, jungle treks or Thai boxing ! After another wonderful overnight train journey (putting UK public transport again to great great shame) I arrived well and happy. The next day I embarked on a two day trek and camp with a group of 10 others. The trek involved lots of up hill rocky walking through rivers mud and rice fields I found it a challenge but have definitely given my new ankle a thorough testing and can confirm it works perfectly ! Part of the trek was done by elephant which was terrifying as we literally slid down muddy banks on an elephant followed by other elephants sliding along, I had visions of an elephant domino effect and me being squished under tons of elephants in the mud. After about 10 hours of travel and trek we stopped to camp for the night next to a beautiful water fall which I took no time in getting into for a swim and wash. We cooked dinner on a camp fire, ate roasted silk worms and drank beer by candle light. It was difficult to sleep as the jungle noises were so very loud better than street traffic though. Another day of trekking ended i was rather knackered but luckily was in Chaing mai for the famous Sunday markets where they close most of the streets off and open up markets so wasted no time recovering and got out shopping.
I decided to take a Thai cookery course for the day.I had a wonderful time shopping for goods on the markets and preparing traditional dishes such as spring rolls, pad Thai, green curry, Tom Yum soup and stir frys...all delicious although some of the cooking techniques i will not be using at home for fear of burning the house down (see pic !!!) I will be putting these new found skills to good use on my return for so for all future meal bookings please contact me by email !
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