Date Stamp: 12-14 November 2010
That short escapade was great…who would have thought…a week earlier I didn’t even know I was gonna have this short great vacation last weekend!
I got invited by a friend who was going on a trip with this group of people she was working with, she didn’t want to be alone with them so she invited me, and it was really worth it! Although I paid premium for a flight ticket via Air Asia but the hotel stay there was superb along with the VIP treatment we received thanks to the influential group of people we went with!
I travelled on my own back & forth direct flight to Chiang Mai, while my friend was from Bangkok & met me there with the group. We had our own personal tour with Kun Ta & Sharif, both Muslim, Kun Ta could speak Malay as he was from the south area of Thai, near to Kelantan and it was nice of them to assign him to us as he did all the bargaining at the bazaar!
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| The Hotel Lobby |
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| Room 320 |
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| The Balcony Hang Out! |
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| The View from the Balcony - the River |
Balcony view
Since it was a short trip, we didn’t do much, first day arrived we went straight for lunch, they took us to a muslim restaurant near the hotel, where we had the local mee curry, it was different that ours and it was good too
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| The Local Curry Mee in Chiang Mai |
Next we walked around the area, I got myself this beautiful pashmena (not the place for it, but I loved it & juz got it anyway!!), then we proceed to visit the branch of the group, the people were hospitable. It’s nice seeing how management takes the trouble to mingle with their staff, joking and laughing and all…a sight I hardly see here.
Then it was back to the hotel for the both of us while the group continued with their business trip & it was all leisure for us both. I slept off and in the evening we went for dinner with the group again at this Chinese & Thai Muslim Cuisine – Jen Pao Restaurant, had dinner with them and later proceed to the night Bazaar where we shopped, by end of the day, I had spent 60% of the cash I brought – usual behavior of mine I noticed! We were there till the shops closed, that was 12midnite (Malaysian time 1am), pity Kun Ta…he must have been tired following us around! But thank God he was around, we got good prices because of him!
Then it was spending time in the fantastic hotel, juz lepak at the balcony with the refreshing cool breeze & free wifi on the phone :)
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| The Dinner - First Night @ Chiang Mai |
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| Queens of Transgender Show going on at the Night Bazaar |
Day 2: woke up early for breakfast with the group, still didn’t know what I was gonna be doing the whole day that day, coz you know, I didn’t plan anything! Haha…we joined the group for breakfast at the hotel around 7.45am, and about 20 minutes after they had to leave and we didn’t have to follow them for the seminar, he he, more leisure time on our own, we took pictures around the hotel & the pool was superb…so beautiful! And later Kun Ta arrived with a car together with Sharif and we went sightseeing come shopping at Dao Settup & Bhubing Palace, we walked a lot & shopped too! My feet was aching…
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| Breakfast at The Chedi Hotel - I had more...that's juz some settings to show off :) |
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| It was a long way up - stairs! |
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The Orang Asli of the Area |
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| The Temple - Cultural shows outside for tourist and shops along the way up |
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| Some nice flowers that caught our eye at the Bhubing Palace |
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| The Water Reservour |
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| Nice! |
When we got back, we joined the President for Tea, and he left for his business visit again while we had dinner at the Hotel & then enjoyed a Massage at the Spa…fantastic! Later in the night, we went for our last shopping along the ‘Saturday Walking Street’ for souvenirs and another round of lepak session at the hotel, my last night as I was leaving in the morning…There's more pictures, but the rest will be on FB when I get to it :)
In short…it was another sweet November… :D
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| Goodbye Chiang Mai - Welcome Air Asia to KL - Nasi Lemak & Coffee otw back :) |
