Chiang Mai is full of markets. The huge night bazaar is constructed every night and every Saturday and Sunday the walking markets offer their goods to tourists and locals alike. I managed to get there just as the stall owners had finished setting up but it soon got busy! There was really so much on offer I could have bought suitcases full of trinkets and eaten tons of delicious thai food. I tried the local dish, kow soi, for dinner and that was delicious. A noodle dish in a thai curry sauce with chicken. Yum!
I found a fruit stall that sells muesli and yoghurt at another small market so went there for breakfast this morning before going to the visa office. I got chatting to the only other foreigner there who was an 81 year old grandpa escaping the cold in Canada. We had a lovely chat about travelling as we enjoyed our muesli. He told me a funny story about a Thai man he met with the name pum pui. Apparently his name means 'fat belly', which was what he had when he was born so they called him that! I think Thai people have a wicked sense of humour!
Getting my visa extension for my yoga course was also an experience. As I arrived 30 minutes early thinking I'd beat the crowd, it was full and there were also two white monks. I sat behind them and eavesdropped, finding out that one was German and the other Russian. I have never seen European Buddhist monks before and it was quite strange. Totally shaved eyebrows and heads.
I have met a lot of french people in Chiang mai and I am looking forward to meeting more at my next destination, Pai.
I found a fruit stall that sells muesli and yoghurt at another small market so went there for breakfast this morning before going to the visa office. I got chatting to the only other foreigner there who was an 81 year old grandpa escaping the cold in Canada. We had a lovely chat about travelling as we enjoyed our muesli. He told me a funny story about a Thai man he met with the name pum pui. Apparently his name means 'fat belly', which was what he had when he was born so they called him that! I think Thai people have a wicked sense of humour!
Getting my visa extension for my yoga course was also an experience. As I arrived 30 minutes early thinking I'd beat the crowd, it was full and there were also two white monks. I sat behind them and eavesdropped, finding out that one was German and the other Russian. I have never seen European Buddhist monks before and it was quite strange. Totally shaved eyebrows and heads.
I have met a lot of french people in Chiang mai and I am looking forward to meeting more at my next destination, Pai.
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