Chang Mai is way up in the north of Thailand. It's close to Myanmar, China and Laos. A lot of tribes from Myanmar and China have fled to this mountainous region over the past. So now the ethnic composition is r
eally diverse and have become a tourist attraction by it self. Freddy wanted to take the tour and so we did. It was the odd kind of tour you can find in many touristy places. But we still did some stuff you normally don't see. We saw a elephant circus, which consisted out of soccer, basketball and painting. Not exactly daily business back home. Then we took on oxcart to a souvenir shop strip, through which we had to walk through to get to the spot where we could "board" our elephant. The elephant took us down a road through a river and through a nice little forest. Afterwards all the tired tourist ate at the only restaurant that was ther
e. Afterward we got the typical Asian hats and cruised downriver with an bamboo raft. This was actually pretty cool because it was really slow and quiet (no engine). While going down you are able to see a lot of elephants taking baths and so on. The elephants parents by the way used to work in the forest to collect tree trunks etc. Than we went to a Karen long neck village which features the world famous people who where rings around there neck and eventually have 30cm long necks. Oddly enough the village was pretty new and looked like it was built just next to a huge tourist Information complex as a park. But we found out that the people who live there since 5 years fled from the Myanmar regime and now have no nationality and need to earn some bucks. That made it acceptable. Then we visited an orchid farm which was the last stop on a packed trip that my grandpa physically easily could do.
eally diverse and have become a tourist attraction by it self. Freddy wanted to take the tour and so we did. It was the odd kind of tour you can find in many touristy places. But we still did some stuff you normally don't see. We saw a elephant circus, which consisted out of soccer, basketball and painting. Not exactly daily business back home. Then we took on oxcart to a souvenir shop strip, through which we had to walk through to get to the spot where we could "board" our elephant. The elephant took us down a road through a river and through a nice little forest. Afterwards all the tired tourist ate at the only restaurant that was ther
e. Afterward we got the typical Asian hats and cruised downriver with an bamboo raft. This was actually pretty cool because it was really slow and quiet (no engine). While going down you are able to see a lot of elephants taking baths and so on. The elephants parents by the way used to work in the forest to collect tree trunks etc. Than we went to a Karen long neck village which features the world famous people who where rings around there neck and eventually have 30cm long necks. Oddly enough the village was pretty new and looked like it was built just next to a huge tourist Information complex as a park. But we found out that the people who live there since 5 years fled from the Myanmar regime and now have no nationality and need to earn some bucks. That made it acceptable. Then we visited an orchid farm which was the last stop on a packed trip that my grandpa physically easily could do.Chiang Mai itself is OK. The amazing things is the sheer amount of Pagodas (Buddhist churches) they built there. In total it has more than Bangkok.
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