Chiang Mai is a centre for many half day, full day and
multi-day trips into the surrounding countryside for zip-lining, elephant
trekking, hiking and so on. But we just
didn’t find anything that felt right, so instead we decided to explore the city
a bit more then head to the gigantic mall to see a movie. This time, we saw “Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes” and it was awesome. It is just hard
to believe what those CGI guys can bring to life on the screen which, in tandem
with an intriguing storyline, makes for quite a show.
After the movie we chose one of the dozens of interesting
restaurants in the mall (the mall was large, fancy and modern, though not quite
as “over-the-top” nor busy as the ones in Kuala Lumpur) and enjoyed a delicious
dinner of Japanese food including the best sushi we’ve yet.
By 7pm we were at the bus station to catch our overnight
ride to Bangkok. Thankfully it was a double
decker with fully reclining seats and an onboard toilet. After settling in, the attendant came around
and offered us snack boxes, drinks, blankets and pillows, and before long we
were all fast asleep, in part due to the Dramamine pills we had all taken, just
in case the road was windy and rough.
Strangely, we made a meal stop at two in the morning at a gigantic,
roadside cafeteria, owned by the bus company.
The idea of eating at that strange hour kept us on the bus, but I felt
compelled to go to have a look and found hundreds of people chowing down on
noodle soup, rice curries, mystery meat and other unidentifiable food
items. I returned to the bus, dropped
into my seat and was instantly asleep.
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