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We are surprised that we're not in as much pain as we thought we would be in following our 10km rafting experience yesterday! I was half expecting to be hobbling around the hotel all day today. As it turns out we are both in pretty much top condition!

We didn't plan any major activities for today; there were a couple of missions we had to tie up first. Firstly we made our way back to the Old Chiang Mai Café to meet with a lady called Thitrat Unawatewanich a.k.a Nong. Nong is the marketing manager for Angel freight (Chiang Mai branch office) as well as proprietor of the noodle restaurant across the street from our hotel. She will manage the delivery of the paintings that we are looking to purchase from the Old Chiang Mai Café.  If she gives us a good price the plan is to return to the café on Sunday, pay for the paintings and then leave them in the hands of Nong for delivery to Paris.

The second and final mission of the day was to arrange the hotel for our time in Ko Samui. We are flying south on Monday morning. We have organized a very nice hotel on the beach in Ko Samui for 4 days as we will probably move onto the one of the smaller islands off Ko Samui (www.kosamui.com/)  for the remainder of our time in the south of Thailand prior to returning to Bangkok… and then to Paris.

A quite afternoon sitting around the pool and then off to dinner. We heard of a vegetarian restaurant in Chiang Mai called A Taste from Heaven. We read about it in the Lonely Planet guide which is normally a reason NOT to visit. It was great! In fact I thought it was the best restaurant we had visited so far in Thailand, Gisela thought that ALL of the restaurants we have visited were great but she is always (well mostly) over positive. We started with fresh spring roll (not the fried ones), mushroom cakes with peanut sauce, chili fried Morning Glory (a vegetable similar to spinach) and something called Hot & Spicy which was basically a Thai veggie stir fry with rice washed down with a couple of Mojitos and Singha beers. Highly recommended! Some of the profits go to an Elephant rescue park as well.

On the way back to the hotel we spotted a bar on the top floor of one the buildings near the old city walls and decided to investigate. The bar was a very nice hippy spot with a DJ, low tables and rugs to sit on. They put up numerous signs… do not steel this… do not steel that… no drugs (the cops come once in a while) etc. It was a very nice end to the day prior to returning to the hotel hot and tired.

Good night.

Jason & Gisela

 

Today's Addresses

Taste from Heaven

237 – 239 Th Tha Phae

Chiang Mai

 

THC Roof Top Bar & Restaurant

Exit the Pha Pae Gate,

Look right then Up.

You will see the colored lights on top of the building.