4D3N Chiang Mai -Chiang Rai Slideshow Slideshow

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Terima kasih, JYM

Perkenalkan Jym. (bukan tour guide, ye)

Nama penuh JYM PRASATANEE SIRIPIPAT

Jym, BFF kakak. Mereka berkawan sejak menuntut di Hartford,
beberapa puluh tahun yang lalu,

Sampai kini  mereka masih berkomunikasi (FB sudah tentu)

Jym telah 'terbang' dari Bangkok ke Chiang Mai bila dapat tahu kami berada di sini..

Jym pernah ke Melaka. Sebab itu saya juga kenal dia.

Jym  tetap sama...'rugged' dalam fesyen (maklumlah orang seni dan kreatif)

Masih happy dan lucu, bercakap dengan lemah lembut , happy, happy

Malam pertama di Chiang Mai kami berjumpa di hotel penginpan kami.
Setelah bertukar-tukar 'greetings' dan khabar,

Kami bertiga menapak ke Night Market (tiap-tiap malam ada pasar malam, besar!) berhampiran hotel.

pemandangan sebahagian Night Market dari tingkat 16 hotel

Mujur ada Jym...
Dapatlah Jym buat 'bargaining' bila kami nak beli sedikit cenderahati.

Best Night Market Chiang Mai

Kami minum minum, suka suka , gelakgelak

 kakak dan Jym betukar-tukar khabar dan cerita.

Bila kami ke Chiang Rai dan seterusnya Mae Sai,
Kesokan harinya.

Jym tetap tunggu kepulangan kami di Chiang Mai.

Hari terakhir (Day 4) kami di Chiang Mai semula,
Acara bebas sebelah pagi (plane petang)
Jym datang untuk membawa kami
last minit shopping dan cuci mata.

Jym bawa kami naik teksi, naik tuk tuk

(di sini  tak ada bas tambang atau rapid macam bandar kita)

Saya suka pusing-pusing bandaraya Chiang Mai

dari dalam teksi

Kesempatan ini kami tak rasa kalau 'round' dengan member sendiri.

Jym bawa kami ke pasar, ke bazar., ke kedai
juga ke 'wat' (jadi kebangaan Jym)

Menggunung cili giling!!

Masa untuk berpisah dengan Jym

Kopunkarp, Jym.

(betul ke ejaan 'terima kasih' orang Thai?)
Thank you for the treats.
Thank you for the short but wonderful time together in Chiang Mai.

We've got a friend in Thailand

(of course Bangkok)
Kami menunggu Jym pula datang sekali lagi ke Malaysia
(sudah tentu, Melaka!)
Jym, kau sungguh baik hati!

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LOVE AT FIRST BITE

Teringin...mencari....di  CHIANG MAI

Dah jumpa!!
Sticky rice with sweet manggo...pulut bersama mangga manis

Curah sedikit santan ke atas pulut, lawan mangga....yummy, yummy

Love at first bite!  50BHT (RM5.00)

Asli..tanpa sudu!

Makan angin lagi

Salam sejahtera....
3H4M di Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Mae Sai ,bandar-bandar di utara Negara Thai . Pergi pagi Isnin yang lalu dan baru balik malam tadi. Ini lawatan kedua saya. (lawatan pertama  pada 2008).
Tunjukkan peta dulu lah ye, tempat-tempat yang kami lawati.

Ke Golden Triangle:sempadan Burma, Laos dan Thailand

Chiangmai: lawatan home industries, taman bunga

Dua beradik siap sedia untuk ber 'adventure' di utara Thai.

Nantilah ye, kalau rajin saya akan buat laporan.

What a tiring week

Dear readers, These were the places we visited during our 6 days and 5 nights stay in Thailand: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and of course Bangkok. Please excuse the map, too small. I took it from a poster map outside a tour kiosk near the hotel in Chiang Mai. Since these places are in the mountains, the twenty one of us travelled in three seperate vans. Wow! What a bumpy and swirling journey, mind you up and down the mountain, through winding roads to see the so called longneck ladies, to discover the borders of Thailand with neighbouring Myanmar and Laos, The Golden Triangle, to feed the elephants at the Elephant Camp, to admire the beautiful orchids at the Orchid Farm and to respect the paper umbrella makers , to enjoy the beautiful landscape at the stunning Doi Tung Garden. Oh yes, the silk factory,the Gem Jewellery, the fruit market and the night market in the city are places worth visiting.These are in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, up north. But more to see in Bangkok, down south,with the floating market, the wax museum, shopping and more shopping.....ooooh. ....So tired that when I reached home-sweet-home, my body ached and was down with cough and sore throat. So these are starters, readers, more to come, God Willing.....Geography lessons of yesteryears came alive.....Loy,Loy kratong, sawadee ka......

The mad rush!

Dear readers, Just came back from my a week break visiting Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Bangkok with the golden girls.Rombongan Cik Kiah, gitu....Very tiring but interesting. More of that later. What I want to comment is what I read and saw in the Sunday's newspapers yesterday. "MAD SCRAMBLE' and pictures of: smiling faces holding up cash, dissatisfied and angry faces when rebate was denied and oh my.....the mad rush at the post office' counters!!!!We are given until March 31 next year to claim the rebates., but why the rush?? Guess they have their own reasons for doing so. But why didn' t they rush to submit theirs income tax form? Yes, they did but it was the last minute rushed!!!Why didn't they rush to register as voters? Why didn't they rush to pay up their bills and assessment? But some of them will also rush to get the best seat in the in free seating low fare air plane carrier, yes even among the above 55 ( A A had risen the age to 65!). More examples of rushing incidents can be seen among some of us, don't want to mention the country, shy only lah!!!

Kaki Jalan, Jon Jalan!

Dear readers,
Insya Allah, God Willing, I'll be away for a short 'break' to Chiang Mai, ChiangRai and Bangkok this coming week. I'll be going with my friends not my friends (macam cerita Anakku bukan Anakku). Actually they are my sister's friends (and now my friends lah). Rombangan Cik Kiah gitu! I've seen part of Bangkok but not the other two. So hope to write more of my 'jom jalan, kaki jalan' (that's me) adventure next time. Okey, see you, readers...