Wednesday, January 2, 2008

NEW YEARS IN CHIANG MAI

To polish off our last few days of vacation we took an overnight bus to Chiang Mai, the northern most province in Thailand (see link to map). It was there that we met up with some of our friends from Khon Kaen. Together, we high tailed it to the mountains for a camping adventure.

Our group included ten Thais and 5 foreigners, mostly all teachers. Highlights of the trip included a gorgeous morning train ride through the hills of the golden triangle, waterfall-side picnic lunches, successfully squeezing eleven people into the back of a pick up truck for a five hour drive, and shouting "Sawatdee Bee Mai!" (Happy New Years) with everyone at the fully packed campground on the stroke of midnight. We had a blast.

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