Chang Mai with Anne Flore

Chang Mai is really a nice trip to do !!

We stayed there only three days but we made the most of it !
We beginn with a rest in our lovely and very cheap French gesthouse that we found thanks to the Routard Guide ... C&C Teak House hosted by a thai/french couple. We then booked our Trekking for 2 days and went out for a Oil massage. There again the adress in the Routard guide was a good one : "Bor Nguen" for 300Bth you get a very warm welcome in a relaxing environment and the massage of course was great ... don't waste your money on cheap massage on the street or on the beach, it is sooo more worse in such institutes ;)




Friday and Saturday was in the Jungle !! We went with 3 other French bagpackers (Thomas, Marie and Karine. Karine is partner in a casting agency for advertisment in Paris and it was very interesting to speak with her ;) always work/ carrier oriented I am !!) There were also 5 Americans from New York of course and to add a litlle bit to the cliche they were all Law students lol and three hollander sisters were also with us and here again in order to confirm all the cliche ... Thomas got weed from the guide and only the French people and the Dutch girls smoked it :D

So we begun with an elephant tour ... i was glad to see elephants, to touch them (and their trunk .. hihi) cause they are soooo sweet but at the same time this kind of tour is really useless and ridiculous !


Then we went for a three hours walking trip in the jungle to get to the village where we spent the night... We had been started for 2 min when it started raining !! A huge thunder storm ... I really felt like in Lost ;) strangely enough I decided that I was Kate :D
Walking in the jungle is really a nice experience, it is amazingly beautiful ! and also fun, not to mention the moment when Anne Flore fell in the down !
I think I will try to do more trekkings but maybe with more hours walking. There are huge National parks in the South of Thailand that I really want to visit.

The village was a funny experience .. People living there are Chinese fleeing communism.. they are called New Thai, they don't have ID of course but the government allow them unofficialy to stay there. They have a few chickens, porks and corn fields.. as it is highly forbiden to cut any tree in this National park they put fire during the warm season, which can be very dangerous for tourists group, our guide explained !!
On a more trivial basis but interesting either, I noticed that all the Americans went to the shower as soon as we get to the village, while all the Europeans felt reluctant and evetnually I didn't even took a shower :D
After a few Singha beers, a few joints and of course a few discussions about politics in the USA (!!) we falled asleep but woke up really early thanks to the lovely chickens :)




The next day were waterfalls and rafting on the programm .. really nice of course and the jungle by nice weather is even more beautiful ! (I let you judge by yourself with the pictures !)
Thomas as been trying to learn Thai a little bit, so we practice with him and the guide and I begin to have some basics :)




Saturday evening was quiet with only a typical thai restaurant .. miammy and sooooo cheap !
and Sunday was dedicated to markets : I have spend quite a lot of money on food !!! It was of course only to get the opportunity to practice on Thai ;) I can now negociate on Thai and when you say that you are student in bangkok and that you can say the numbers in thai they are relly more willing to give you good prices :D I got also necklaces, t shirts, bouddha, scarfes .. to sum up, many things that I really don't need :(



We were supposed to go back by train but because of the events in Bangkok against the governement we had to take the bus.. I want to wait and have some more infos, but I will also try to write a post about those events and give you an insight from the heart of the issue.


oh yes by the way ... never underestimate the power of mosquitos in the North of Thailand even during day time !!!!!!!