Chiang Mai

We flew from Laung Prabang airport to Chaing Mai in Thailand. We'd never been to Chiang Mai before, even though we'd been to Thailand.

Laung Prabang International Airport.

We have made a few visits to a few of the popular tourist spots which we'll describe below. Our favourite experience was with the tigers which will get a post of its own.

We visited a snake farm. We got there late and were the only people there. They still put on a show for us.

This tree has about one hundred snakes at least on it. There were four varieties.

One of the snakes "got away" and came for Stan.

Nicole was not too keen on this photo.

We also went to a monkey show. They showed us how monkeys were used in villages to help harvest coconuts.

This guy is seems to like Nicole

We did a tour one day. It involved a large variety of activities.

 First we went riding on an elephant.

We then went trekking for an hour to a waterfall. Not nearly as spectacular as the ones in Laos though.

After we went white water rafting. Nicole and a French man in our raft fell over board in some rapids. When the French man got back in he put his oar up and said, "I am going on strike!" 

When we ran out of rapids, we changed to bamboo rafting. This was actually harder than the white water rafting as it kept wanting to tip over.

Stan is getting a suit tailored. While trying to choose a colour for the suit the "helpful" shop assistant said, "go grey to match your hair colour". (For some reason the sun has brought out all his grey hair.) The tailor wanted an extra $40 to sew "Armani" tags into the suit though why anyone would want that is beyond us.