Greetings from Thailand #02

It's me again come at ya from the land of Thai!

We moved from the town of Krabi and made our way to Sukhothai. We stayed for a couple of nights at a chilling little guesthouse cottage and landed in the middle of a big festival which was celebrated with a CNE style expo. They were selling everything from new Hondas to stir fried crickets. The next day we explored the ancient Sukothai ruins. We cruised around the 70 km square site by bike. Mine was a girl's bike with a bell!

We flew out of Sukhothai yesterday morning and landed in the northern city of Chaing Mai. We spent the afternoon getting settled into our guesthouse and wandering this city which is the second largest in Thailand.

Today we took a tour which had us up at the Golden Triangle. This is where Thailand meets Burma and Laos and home to the legendary Mae Khong. This area is also famed for the huge opium trade that it enjoyed in the past before everyopne thought exporting heroin wasn't good for the country's image! We even had the chance to take a quick boat ride over to Laos where we had a couple shots of COBRA whiskey...the cobra was in the bottle for proof. After Laos we headed to visit with some hilltribes in the mountainous area of northern Thailand.

We are here for a couple of more days then we head for Bangkok.

Hopefully I'll have a chance to post a 3rd installment!

Later gators!