Thursday 19 January 2012

Chiang Mai and beyond round 2 #10 / last week and this week

YES.. we now each have 3 months, single entry visa.
Below is the entrance area of the Indian Consulate in
Chiang Mai.
and after we collected our passports with visa stickers, stamped and ready to go...

on our way to the travel agent (where we went to enquire about flights) we stopped at this lovely pagoda.


last saturday morning around 6am... This was the day where we got up at 3.45am to travel to a distant mountain with Manop, his wife and his brother. This mountain is part of the Himalayas and we forgot it's name.. Why so early? To see the sunrise - naturally... But the weather had other plans and it was incredibly foggy, so much so that we had to drive up the mountain at absolute snail-speed so that we didn't fall off the side of it.... Half way up we were stopped by guards and had to wait for the fog to clear. It didn't clear. We drove back to Chiang Mai and arrived back home (back to bed) at about 10.30am. What a morning. But it was fun, too. Jason made a Thai friend in the fog, while Birgit fell asleep in the car.. The rest of the day was spent sleeping and feeling jet-lagged.:
a video from that morning last saturday (the fog encounter on the way up the mountain)

At the little restaurant next door to Manop's place one evening..
Not sure which exact evening. The food here is delicious, but can
be a little spicy.. (It might have been the same saturday evening that we had tried to drive up the mountain, when fog stopped us)

just 3 days ago when we found a nice market:

today after collecting our visas, getting train tickets ... lunch/breakfast/brunch...
outside Manop's place this afternoon, new wires being put in place...:

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