Chiang Mai, the city of the two sides

This is a larger city, the historic center is bounded by a moat full of water and the remains of a wall. Its interior consists basically of guesthouse, tourist offices, and restaurants, bars, cafes … anything a tourist might need, and that’s what there is, tourists … the exterior of the old city is a city that moves almost foreign to tourism.

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The possible tourist attractions are the Buddhist temples inside.

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And its markets, such as the Sunday market, among other tourist markets, which lose their charm after 5 minutes or the Warorot market, the fantastic local market for food, clothing and others, surrounded by shops of any kind. thing you may need Following the river to the north is also the Muang Mai market, a large local food market, which we found quite curious.

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We stayed at Lamchang guesthouse for 250 Baths a night, although afterwards we found a better price at Nomadic bed and bar, 200 Baths the night bargaining for 5 nights.

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Jaume on the hunt for mosquitoes, with the super electrifying racket, indispensable in all houses in Thailand.

The purpose of my visit to Chiang Mai included a training time in Thai massage at the hands of Pichest Massage School, in Hang Dong, one of the best teachers of Thai massage in the north, who offers his knowledge to anyone who wants to learn, paying 1000 Baths per day. The experience did not disappoint, I was 3 days of training, and I decided to leave the extension of my training for later because this was not the purpose of the trip, and economically yes it was noticeable.

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After contacting some artistic associations in relation to our clown projects, we were in contact with Gathe Theater, who invited us to the premiere of their latest work, so we were delighted, we got really good and enjoyed !! Up the curtain!

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One of the jewels of Chiang Mai were the fruit smoothies KhunKae’s Juice and Smoothie bar, where for 40 Baths you can drink all the vitamins you need to shine.

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The second place and the best one for me is a street food stand where they prepared the best Kao Soy I’ve tasted, and I’ve tried it everywhere I’ve been … a gem on Moon Muang road with Lane 7, do not you you can lose …

Oh and by the way … in Chiang Mai we also celebrated Mayra’s birthday, and for that we autorelagamos a pizza !!!!!!! A pizza in one of the best pizzerias with wood oven … the truth is that after a month of rice, noodles and vegetables … eating pizza was an orgasm …

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Our next stop is Arunothai !!!!! to do a Clown project at School of Hope.

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