Three days in Chiang Mai, Thailand

We arrived in Chaing Mai mid day and took a taxi to the hotel, Makkachiva.  It was a museum that had been converted into a hotel (or something like that).  It had beautiful and magnificent pieces of art on the walls.

Mark with Linda, his sister - she lives in Chaing Mai

We found the church

Tuk Tuk

Ancient Temple

Monks at the west gate

Linda met as at the hotel after we got settled in and took us on a tour of the city before we secured fantastic seats at the Thai dancing dinner theater.

We were sat at Table 1 - the very best seats at the theater!

Dinner was delicious

After the show, we went back to the hotel, but we wanted to find the "night market" so Mark and I walked around the market.  HE found all sorts of items from his mission that he still remembered.  He loves THAILAND!!!

The next morning we enjoyed breakfast before heading out to go ride the Elephants!!!

In the jungle

All the beautiful elephant

With the baby elephant

Where's the food???

getting a ride from the elephants

Bamboo ride down the river

After our adventure at the elephant park, we went to a tiger park.

11/17/17 Betsy  was BRAVE or CRAZY, or both.  We walked into an enclosure with two live tigers and decided to pet them both.  Look at the size of them!!!

It was the most exhilarating and scariest thing Betsy's ever done!!!

That night we had a delicious dinner out with Linda. Most of the restaurants have open areas because the weather is so nice in Thailand.

Next morning in hotel

The next day we went up to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, then toured more temples before having dinner with Linda and touring the HUGE night market.

 Linda took us to the grocery store - I found that I could survive nicely in Thailand.

From there we toured another Wat.  This one was both ancient and modern

We met up with Linda for dinner, the night market and foot and leg massages.  Mark didn't like his because the guy pressed too hard.