These last few days have been an absolute BLURR. Charlotte and I arrived in Bangkok after our 8 HOUR layover in the Dehli airport and we checked into our classy hostel at 8am. We treated ourselves to one of the nicer "guesthouses" because we figured we'd been living in the shithole of an orphanage, plus freezing our butttttts off on everest. Looking back, it was no grand hotel. But to us, it was paradise! There was a rooftop pool AND the rooms were air conditioned. Our first day in Bangkok was spent sleeping, tanning and swimming...with the odd venture out onto the street to purchase some fresh fruit, pad thai (which they make RIGHT on the street for you) or spring roll. The food here is UNNREALLL. There are all of these little street venders that make everything from pad thai to sticky rice & mango to fried rice to meat kabobs. The fruit here is also....i don't even know how to describe it because most of it i didn't even know existed! Our mornings usually consist of finding some fruit stand that will make us a fresh fruit salad with museli and yoghurt....all for the price of 30-50 (whiichhhh is like a dollar).
SO GOOD.
Charlotte and I had two days in bangkok because maria and katie were arriving at midnight the second day. So, to go with our "just do it" attitude we booked two days of activities. The first day we went to this floating market a couple hours outside of bangkok. We arrived to this little village of houses on stilts (because they're all built along the canal) and we were ushered into this boat, given massive hats, and the rowed along the canals. There were people in and around the canal selling EVERYTHING! You could even order freshly made spring rolls from a woman in a wooded boat.
unreal.
(p.s. i can't remember if i already wrote about this...my bad).
The next day we went on a half-day cycling tour of bangkok with a real tour guide. It was a really great way to see and learn about the city. I only crashed once...and it was into a motorcycle that wasn't really moving. I learned that city cycling is totally not my thing. Put me on a long, open country road and i'm golden. but dodging stray dogs, mopeds and vendors...all while trying NOT to fall into the canal? nope...not for me.
We finally met up with Hecks and Maria, and the 4 travelled 14h on an overnight train from Bangkok to Chaing Mai. The train was SO COOL. I had never been on one and I couldn't really decide if I felt like a refugee in the lower decks of the titanic, or Harry Potter on the hogwarts express...but regardless, it was WAY better than taking a bus. We all got beds, and were able to sleep for most of the ride. We're in chaing mai now for 3 days, and today we had a fun filled adventure that included going on an extremely sketchy elephant ride, a very sweaty, hot hike to a waterfall (where we played like 5 year olds) and then a hilarious white water rafting/bamboo rafting experience. Elephants apparently love maria, and she got snorted on quite a few times. We were deemed the "supermodels" when we were rafting (probably because we were the only raft with all girls)...and the guides were hilarious.
Tomorrow WE ARE DOING A COOKING CLASSS!!! I am so so so excited. It's an all day thing where we start off by going to this market where we pick out all of our ingredients, and then we go back to this organic farm where we cook a 6 course meal!
not exactly the best beach bod prep, but hey...i just ate rice for 5 weeks straight.
hope you're enjoying the LOVELY november weather.
LOVE
J&C...and K&M
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