A traveller's reflection: 2014 4x4 Thai Adventure: 04 Chiang Mai

My Travel Journal

"There isn't much I haven't shared with you along the road and through it all there'd always be tomorrow's episode" - Elton John

I started traveling around the world since early 80s when I had the opportunity to combine business trips with vacations. Then later when my rezeki is in abundance, there were numerous other trips along the way for vacations, most of the time with hubby and the kids when the timing is right. I have also started to compile the journal and photo-pages covering almost more than 45 years of world wide travel. Some destinations I visited just once, others many times. Many of those places are the obvious famous places people would like to visit but some, the casual traveler doesn't even think to try. I have placed links to my travel at the side bar of my personal page, My Life Reflections, and will be updating them from time to time.

My wish is to continue my travel and complete circumnavigate the globe, insyaAllah…

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

2014 4x4 Thai Adventure: 04 Chiang Mai

"Just because you had a bad day doesn't mean you have a bad life..."

(The Chiang Mai Grand Mosque viewed from our room)

Day 4: 8 September 2014 (Monday)

Chiang Mai

(A selfie before breakfast)

(A t-shirt from Kanchanaburi)

(Murals on the elevator door)

(Another mural on the door)

(The Pornping Tower hotel room)

(A massage parlor next to the hotel)

We had breakfast at the hotel cafe. After breakfast we rested in the room while Ayami and Siti went out to explore the city of Chiang Mai as this is their first trip here.

Around 13:00hrs we went to the Muslim Restaurant for a nasi goreng lunch and bought pisang goreng from a stall by the mosque.

(Dried longan fruits)

(Fish and prawn sausages)

(Another local delicacies)

(A Muslim restaurant by the mosque)

(Goren Pisang stall next to the mosque)

We drove to Pop Motorcycle Rental, a short distance from our hotel where we arranged to rent five motorbikes for our bikers gang who will be arriving by flight in late afternoon. After choosing and booking the bikes we went back to the hotel to rest while waiting for the rest to arrive.

(POP Motorbike Rental)

(Hayami testing the Suzuki V-Strom)

(Varieties of motorbike brands and sizes)

(A Yamaha Bolt easy rider)

At night the gang had dinner together and later visited the night market and had an hour of a therapeutic foot massage by the road side while watching live performance.