Journey of Life

On the Saturday morning, Mr Mouthien's wife, Mrs Nhai picked up us at 9.00 am for a full day tour to Mae Taeng district, about 60 km from the city center. This comes as no surprise as visiting the elephants is the must tourist activity in Chiang Mai, and in fact in most of our visit to Thailand. Other than sitting on an elephant, ox cart riding and bamboo rafting were unique activities that we experienced all in one place. We spent almost 4 hours at Mae Taeng Elephant Park, where halal lunch buffet included with the package. Instead of buffer, our lunch were served as we were the only Muslim family that day. Mrs Nhai informed us that most of the elephant camps were experiencing deterioration on visitors, especially the Chinese tourist. Some of the small park may need to close shops.

Before that, Nu'man wanted to swim in the pool even though he felt hesitant due to Covid-19 pandemic. No one can be seen at the pool area so Nu'man and I just laid back by the pool side. While yesterday we explored the inner city of the Chiang Mai city wall, today we went further to explore a bit to the northwest. Most were museums dedicated to several folklore people other than the Lanna. At 10.30 am, we went to the Highland People Discovery Museum. Initially, we would like to first visit their village, however it was closed for renovation. So we continued to the museum located just beside the village. Free entry to the museum but a tip very welcome. We were greeted by a delightful lady once we stepped into the museum. There were only us in that museum, as you expected.. :P

After about a month from last tripped to the Uzbekistan , we visited yet another fascinating destination, Chiang Mai. Situated north of Thailand, this is the fourth city we've been to. We flown to Chiang Mai in the afternoon with an uneventful journey, once we entering the province. It was the worst air turbulence we had experienced. To make it worse, our flight were not allowed to touch down and had to make circular cruise, for at least 15 minutes. Nevertheless, the flight managed to land safely 10 minutes early from the scheduled time.