Khao San Road. The first and also final place we visited. The craziness started here.
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Massive bells leading up to the "Wat Saket" Golden Mount.
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Rooftop "apartments" from the Golden Mount lookout.
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Messages left by visitors on tiny bells.
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A monk, paying respect
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The giant Standing Bhudda
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The doorway into an empty random wat.
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A very busy Bangkok road decoration
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Singha Beer at the MDK food centre
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Meat on a stick, sold by street vendors
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Tom, eating some wontons
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A little nervous on one of the many tuk tuk expeditions we took.
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Doors leading into the Random Wat
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Very empty, eery and beautiful to be in a tourist free wat.
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Beer cans cut into lanterns. An example of how creative the Thai people are.
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Gini admiring the Random Wat's ornate decorations.
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A worker working to restore parts of the Grand Palaces interior. There were dozens of workers working on various parts of massive internal paintings.
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One of the many daemons holding up one of the Grand Palaces buildings.
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A Grand Palace guard.
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One of many of the incredible Grand Palace buildings
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The scale of which were incredible.
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Coca! Never before have we drunk so much soft drink. It was so cheap and refreshing.
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Cruising through one of the many internal rivers in Bangkok
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"LUCKYBREAD FOR FISH 20B PER BA
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Gini wearing a "Fan Hat". It fans out from a fan to become a hat :P
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Beware of crazy tourists hiding behind signs.
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and of miniature man eating pigs
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Lunch, at the second of two villages we stayed at on the trek north of Chiang Mai.
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Two of the hill tribes crafty ladies.
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A mountain villagers hut.
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Millions of termites on a mission.
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One of the rice fields in their early stage of growth.
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A widdle pink dragonfly.
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Tom in the rice fields
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The natural irrigation system they used was amazing.
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Our second nights sleep was in our own little hut.
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After a refreshing swim in one of the many water-holes on the trek.
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Green bananas growing in the bush.
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A view over one of the hill tribes villages.
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We made our elephant real friendly :)
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Us ontop of the elephant. Tom looking a little nervous!
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From the back of the elephant
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Feeding the elephant some sugar cane. It's trunk kept coming back for more.
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And more!
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Part way through the elephant trek.
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Libernard Cafe - tasty pancakes for breaky in Chiang Mai.
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The entrance to Waroros food market in Chaing Mai
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A massive assortment of fruit, veges and spices
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Preparing the corn for sale at the market
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Beans? Perhaps. An amazing assortment.
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Massive piles of chilies.
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And of course, soft drink
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View of the market from above
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Chilling over a pint at a riverside cafe, Chiang Mai
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The cafe had some odd looking ornaments.
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Old school tuk tuk. Possibly for sale?
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Orchids! Gini's fascination with them was almost on par with the Thai.
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Amazing wood sculpture. This was massive.
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Not as massive as the biggest bamboo we've ever seen!
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Caps made out of old softdrink cans.
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Which were unfortunately too small for Tom's big head.
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The 300 steps leading up to "Wat Phra That Doi Suthep" which had an awesome view of the city.
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Where there were many interesting, and lifelike, statues.
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The emerald budda. Not the real (jade) one that is in the Grand Palace, but a replica (methinks)
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Hi Mom!
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The view from the top of the Wat
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The Fonze and Gingins on the way back down the mountain.
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We spotted this blue lizard at lunch.
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Gini preparing her spring rolls, at the Thai Cooking class in Chiang Mai.
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Tom seems happy with his effort ...
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And they tasted great!
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Crazy snake man!
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Our shofers to the snake show and monkey park. She was sitting on a tiny plastic childs chair holding on for dear life.
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A doorway to an ancient kingdom, Ayutthaya
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2 monkeys.
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Tarzan of the Ruins
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More of the ancient ruins, Ayutthaya
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As well as tree bound buddhas.
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One of the corner embattlements in Chiang Mai's center.
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Our happy (we think) tuk tuk drivers.
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Who let Tom loose on a bike?
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The night train - all dressed up.
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Mango Muncher!
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Sleeping beauty awakens!
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The perfect self timed shot.
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Decapitated buddhas.
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Gini slurps a coconut. Quite delicious!
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Mary Poppins!
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Fancy pants elephants.
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Meat on stick.
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Bored on Bangkok's underground.
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