To top off the climbing, we rented a moped to get around. Its great fun - flying down the road, towards the crag, on a moped.
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Showing posts with label thailand. Show all posts
December 3, 2006
Crazy Horse Buttress
Finally we found our way to the crag, crazy horse buttress. Fantastic climbing at all grades. I think I did one of the best 6a's I have done to date. Slightly steep, big jugs, sustained all the way, fantastic.
To top off the climbing, we rented a moped to get around. Its great fun - flying down the road, towards the crag, on a moped.
To top off the climbing, we rented a moped to get around. Its great fun - flying down the road, towards the crag, on a moped.
Chiang Mai
Aren't mother's great? As I embark on traveling halfway across the world, my Mum informs me that a friend of her's daughter is living in Chiang Mai and that I should get in touch. So as soon as we arrived, that is exactly what I did do. I met Katie for some food in the local market and had a wonderful evening. It was great to catch up. And there was alot of catching up to do. We think the last time we saw each other was about 18 years ago...
Chiang Mai is a lovely city. Although it is a big city, it doesn't feel like it. Lots of narrow winding streets, lovely markets and hundreds of temples.
The feeling we get is that no one has a kitchen in Thailand. As soon as it gets dark the streets come alive with people cooking on the streets, lots of street stalls with wonderful exotic food to choose from, it is really quite amazing. And the food is fantastic.
Chiang Mai is a lovely city. Although it is a big city, it doesn't feel like it. Lots of narrow winding streets, lovely markets and hundreds of temples.
The feeling we get is that no one has a kitchen in Thailand. As soon as it gets dark the streets come alive with people cooking on the streets, lots of street stalls with wonderful exotic food to choose from, it is really quite amazing. And the food is fantastic.
Bangkok
The adventure has well and truely begun. Arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday morning, and managed our way, thai style, to Khao San Th. My first impressions of Bangkok didn't really change as the time passed. It is another large buzzing capital city, very smoggy and lots of traffic.
On our second morning, we decided to get a Tuk tuk. A kind of thai taxi - for an hour the guy promised to take us to alot of the big temples, the sleeping buddha, the standing buddha and the travel agency, and all for only 5 baht (about 10cent). He did most of what he said took us to lots of temples, the travel agency, A TAILOR, A JEWELLER, .. Apparently for each customer they bring to these shops they get commission. Finally he left us stranded in the middle of nowhere... where we were picked up by another tuk tuk.. who drove us around to more shops... before finally bringing us home - very tired and a little annoyed. However the adventure cost us nothing and we saw a large chunk of Bangkok.... at that moment, we decided we would head to north, to Chiang Mai and booked our 12 hour over night bus journey for an expensive 5 euros....
On our second morning, we decided to get a Tuk tuk. A kind of thai taxi - for an hour the guy promised to take us to alot of the big temples, the sleeping buddha, the standing buddha and the travel agency, and all for only 5 baht (about 10cent). He did most of what he said took us to lots of temples, the travel agency, A TAILOR, A JEWELLER, .. Apparently for each customer they bring to these shops they get commission. Finally he left us stranded in the middle of nowhere... where we were picked up by another tuk tuk.. who drove us around to more shops... before finally bringing us home - very tired and a little annoyed. However the adventure cost us nothing and we saw a large chunk of Bangkok.... at that moment, we decided we would head to north, to Chiang Mai and booked our 12 hour over night bus journey for an expensive 5 euros....
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