Chinese New Year in Thailand Part 2

Day Two and Three 

Our second day in Chaing Mai was fun!  Myron wanted to go rock climbing, so he took a course and left for the day to go rock climbing.  Here are some shots of him climbing:

I decided that I really wanted to get a hot stone massage and a pedicure- both of which were wonderful!  We ended the day with some really good Mexican food and a couple of margaritas-

Our third day in Chaing Mai, which was our last full day, we fit two adventures into one day.  First, we went to the Baanchang Elephant Park to spend the day with the elephants.  The owner is trying to rescue elephants that have been mistreated and provide them with a better life.  We got to feed the elephants first:

This is me feeding a baby elephant a banana.  The park provides you with Mahout- like outfits so that you don't frighten the elephants- thus my awesome duds! 

Then we got to ride the elephants.  Elephants are truly majestic creatures- you really felt that sitting on top of one.  Overall, though, the elephant ride seems to be one of those things that you look forward to a lot, that you find to be just okay while you are doing it, and that you remember quite a bit more fondly looking back on it. 

When we were done with our day at the elephant park, we had only minutes back at our hotel before we got picked up for our last adventure- a Thai cooking class.  One really wonderful thing about Chaing Mai, as you can probably see, is that little adventures are super easy to make happen.  Chaing Mai is a very tourist friendly city, where it is incredibly easy to arrange half and full day tours, and the tour companies tend to be very accommodating for the tourist. 

We made several different dishes-  Here are a couple of shots from our cooking class:

We would highly recommend Chaing Mai!  Happy Year of the Rabbit!