This temple was beautiful…. The wat just shimmered with gold.
Daily Archive for January 3rd, 2006
There were no flights out of Chiang Mai today… So we’re staying an extra day. 
Heading up to the mountain temple Dui Suthep in a bit (highly recommended by fellow travelers as well as my friend Liane). Tomorrow, we catch an EARLY morning flight out to Siem Reap, Cambodia via Bangkok. We’ll have 2 days to wander around Angkor Wat before we fly down to Ko Samui and the beaches!
Very excited about Angkor Wat. As one travel poster advertized: “Angkor Wat: Where you interface with God!”
My favorite part of the trek was the elephant ride.
The elephants we rode on seemed very well treated and fed… but it’s always hard to tell. Elephants are no longer really being used in day-to-day manual labor like they were before. As keeping an elephant is very expensive, the best hope for these amazing creatures in Thailand is (responsible) tourism.
Some pictures…
Feeding “Mae” some sugar cane:
Headshot:
