Shopping..We had to carry those stupid baskets...
Eating the thai welcome snack.After a 6 hour bus ride from Phitsanulok we ended up in the far northern Thai City of Chiang Mai. There was now four of us in the city for the next week maybe and we planned to go trekking together and on a cooking course. We were staying in a nice hostel, which had its own pool and was only a 15 minute walk to the night bazaar (Supposedly the main attraction in Chiang Mai?) We spent our time over the next few days relaxing round the pool and going out in the evenings to the bars and clubs near the night market. We met up with four other people that were staying at the hostel and we all would go out together in the evenings. It was a good laugh. I am so rubbish at pool though.
We booked to go on a one day trek up in the hills. That is written up in the next post.
After getting back from the one day trek we did a cooking course. It is quite a popular thing to do in Thailand as the food is Delicious (and cheap). We booked an evening cooking course that would provide an introduction to Thai cooking. We met up in the cooking school and we all decided what we wanted to cook. We all agreed on a range of curries, and other assorted goodies. We had a visit to a market where the various raw ingredients for our choices were purchased. We even got to watch as our teacher picked a live fish from a tank, she passed it to the stall owner and then proceeded to kill it and cut it up. It wasn't a pretty sight, especially as there were other fish on the stall that already had their heads cut off, but were to still move!!!
We cooked and ate our food and it was particularly Delicious. I have to say that it was the tastiest food i had eaten up until that point. It was something about the curry paste....
We booked to go on a one day trek up in the hills. That is written up in the next post.
After getting back from the one day trek we did a cooking course. It is quite a popular thing to do in Thailand as the food is Delicious (and cheap). We booked an evening cooking course that would provide an introduction to Thai cooking. We met up in the cooking school and we all decided what we wanted to cook. We all agreed on a range of curries, and other assorted goodies. We had a visit to a market where the various raw ingredients for our choices were purchased. We even got to watch as our teacher picked a live fish from a tank, she passed it to the stall owner and then proceeded to kill it and cut it up. It wasn't a pretty sight, especially as there were other fish on the stall that already had their heads cut off, but were to still move!!!
We cooked and ate our food and it was particularly Delicious. I have to say that it was the tastiest food i had eaten up until that point. It was something about the curry paste....
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