Saturday, December 31, 2011

Day 2 - Chiang Mai, Thailand

Today we woke up bright and early at 3am for our flight to Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand.

Chiang Mai is much busier than normal this weekend as many people from other Thai cities and foreigners have come for vacation to celebrate the New Year. And whereas in the U.S. we celebrate New Year's eve for only one night, people here celebrate for 3 nights! That means the city is doing an official New Year's countdown tonight, even though New Years eve is actually tomorrow night (they will do the countdown again tomorrow night).


During the day we visited 4 temples, though we are already starting to get templed-out. There were definitely some cool and unique temples, such as a very old one made of brick (about 700 years old).


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