21/05/13
Alongside this blog I have been writing a journal/diary/whateveryouwanttocallit and yesterday I filled up the last page so today I started a new one, with crisp clean pages. The day itself started with our arrival in Chiang Mai at 06.30 but only after a sleepless night for me and a worrying couple of minutes when we waited at the traffic lights for 2 sets. Just as I realised that our driver had actually fallen asleep at the wheel he woke up. Thankfully he pulled over almost straight away and I think he got a sugar and caffeine boost. When we arrived the hostel we wanted to stay at was full, so after breakfast we just walked across the road and got ourselves a triple room. The rest of the morning was spent deciding and booking what we are going to do whilst staying here. Just after midday Rob and George went to Tiger Kingdom, where you can cuddle tigers. I felt that it was really cruel as the tigers are clearly heavily drugged so I went for a long wander round the city, longer than I first anticipated as I hadn't looked at the scale on the map. We regrouped at the hostel and after freshening up we went to a street food market. I had 4 courses and a drink for $2 and all the food I had was top draw too. Afterwards we went to a shopping night market which was huge, we only covered half of it. We also went to a bar for a drink and on the way back to our hostel we noticed groups of girls outside nearly every bar, all of them smiling and greeting us as we went past and unless I am very much mistaken they were all prostitutes, which in most cases there were more prostitutes than customers at bars. It wasn't even the red light district, in all honesty I don't know if there is one so this could be their equivelent!
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