This morning we said good bye to Chiang Mai and headed to the airport for our flight to Surat Thani, a two hour flight into central Thailand. A driver met us at the airport in Surat Thani and we drove about an hour and a half to our accommodation in Khao Sok National Park. The weather was overcast and the landscape is green with round top mountains, lush with …
Read moreDay 7- Khao Sok- our little treehouse in the jungle
We are currently in the Chiang Mai airport waiting for our flight to Surat Thani. We found out more about the late King. At his death on October 13, 2016 he was the longest reigning monarch in the world (70 years). Queen Elizabeth is second at 65 years. He worked nonstop to make life better for the Thai people and created many programs including one that changed opium growing fields …
We rose at 4:30am. Our hostess had given us our breakfast the night before so all we had to do was heat it in the lobby’s microwave. We were picked up at 5:00am by Sipohn from www.untouchedthailand.com and drove for about 40 minutes up a mountain. As we drove we could see the lights of Chiang Mai far below us. All was still dark when we arrived. We then …
Read moreDay 6- Chiang Mai- Dawn with the Priests and Night with the Lady Boys
I finally slept like a log and woke to a chorus of melodic birdsong…and John brushing his teeth. Our breakfast was beautifully presented with John’s rice sculpted into a dolphin shape and mine a flower. A truck showed up at 8am and we got into the back. After picking up a few others, our party consisted of a couple from Paris, three other people from Toronto, one from Montreal …