April 15
Once we depart the train, we are a getting our bearings once
again in a new town. Of course, we have
numerous offers at the station to take a taxi into town and for assistance with
finding a place to stay. Since we are
still in the middle of Songkran, we go ahead and proceed to a guesthouse that I
have found online that we know has room.
We hire a taxi and are off to the old city of Chiang Mai. The town is essentially a large square with a
moat around the whole city and large gates at the corners to let traffic in and
out. The city is over 700 years old and
is very interesting in terms of it historical significance. We find our guesthouse and the very kind
landlady (Jina) is waiting for us.
Unfortunately, the room is not yet ready for us to check in so we go
around the corner and find a restaurant for breakfast or lunch. We eat some much needed food and then attempt
to walk around a little of the town, but it soon becomes apparent that Songkran
is looming everywhere and we end up getting splashed despite our attempt to
avoid it. We return to the guesthouse
and get checked in. We rest up for a
long time before attempting another foray into town. We make it almost totally into the Sunday
Market street before we are confronted with the “Water Crowd” and since we are
about to melt anyway in the broiling heat, we opt to turn around and head back
home. We only re-emerge later to go to
the Seven-11 and then we find a noodle shop where we have a nice and relaxing
meal before calling it a day.
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