Chiang Rai White Temple

Chiang Rai White Temple

by | Nov 20, 2013 | Asia, Chiang Rai, Thailand

There are basically two things to see in Chiang Rai, the white temple and the black temple (well, black house, but whatever). Today, we did the white temple. We walked over to the old bus station in the center of town and asked around for Wat Rong Khun. They pointed us to platforms 7 and [...]
Thai Cooking Class

Thai Cooking Class

by | Nov 18, 2013 | Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand

We love to cook, and we love thai food. So we wanted to learn how to cook thai food. All the guide books said to take a cooking class in Chiang Mai, so that's what we did today. That and laundry. But you don't care about laundry. So let's cook! We did a half day [...]
Loi Krathong in Chiang Mai

Loi Krathong in Chiang Mai

by | Nov 17, 2013 | Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Well that was crazy. We walked over from our hotel (by the way, we're staying at the FX Hotel Royal Panerai - it's awesome and it's absolutely perfectly located for all the Yi Peng/Loi Krathong celebrations) to the river where we saw a bunch of people gathering for the festivities. We planted ourselves by a [...]
Doi Suthep

Doi Suthep

by | Nov 17, 2013 | Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand

We started the day off at church. We just did sacrament and then took off to explore Chiang Mai. We went back to the hotel and changed and then took the moto up to Doi Suthep. This is a temple up on a hill out west of the city limits. It takes about an hour [...]