2. February 2008 - Chiang-Mai

Chiang Mai, 10th of Feb 2008

Some fresh news! We didn’t leave last Monday to the Elephant Nature Park as planned, due to some minor incident happened few days before.

Let’s come back on what happened the 1st of Feb, 5 pm: we were biking between the temples of Angkor – Damien in front with Mira on his back seat, followed by Sashko and Nina. We were pushing a little stronger on the pedals to be on time for the sunset at Angkor Wat and hrrrr… - the bike stopped, Mira started to cry. She blocked her left food in the back wheel… We had to wait 24 hour to go to the hospital – it’s advised not to spend time in Cambodian hospital, so we directly went to the hospital at our arrival in Bangkok (Thailand) on 2nd of Feb. Good for us Mira’s foot was not broken, just two or three weeks for healing the wounded area and for the twisted ankle to be cured…

We postponed our stay with the elephants with one week… We spent the week in Chiang Mai so that Mira can be cured and healthy enough to be able to bathe and clean the elephants in the river.

We appreciated a lot the pleasant city, spending mornings in the temples. There are too many temples in Chiang Mai, too many Buddha’s inside, but still impressively attracting. It is impossible to avoid visiting at least 5 per day – they are lying on your way, jumping from every corner and we are always tempted to enter and check them. The only constrains was that we had to carry Mira as she was still not able to walk, so we only visited about 3 temples per day. Luckily for the kids because they started really to complain after the first 2. Thai food is a good reason by itself to come to visit Chiang Mai!

We are not sure if we put on weight but for sure all of us really enjoy Thai food: red, green, yellow curry, pad Thai, stir fried, big or small noodles in a sweet-spicy sauce. We even spent a full day in a cooking class (so be ready to eat Thai food next time we meet).

Monday for sure we are going to the Elephant Nature Park – deep in the jungle, far away from the tourist activities of Chiang Mai.

Comments

[claire]

Bravo pour les photos et les dessins!
Les aventures de la Dreamteam sont toujours aussi passionnantes et pleines d'imprévu!
Nous pensons bien à vous
Bisous
Claire Dom Maud

[les guillemouche]

Elles sont chouettes les photos, c'est très joli !
Bon anniversaire Mira
J'espère que ca vous a plu

bisous tous les 4
Paul


On aime bien voyager avec vous par votre site !!!!

Pitoune

A la prochaine étape .... entiers !

Elo

[les chupinos]

on adore la photo sunset in sianouk-zobi
elle semble bien résumer votre sérénité

ici on ne se baigne pas encore mais on croise les doigts
le bidon de doudou extra-pousse et jules veut s'inscrire au spartak de moscou

grosses bises

[Clara]

Hello,
I am following from time to time your world tour, and it looks like a really beautiful experience.
good luck for your next steps, I hope you will not hurt yourselves too much !

Take care,
Clara

[cecile et yann]

hello everybody!!
i m happy to have some news of you!!
i hope that mira is ok now, and happy birthday (late)
did you enjy cambodia? your photos are beautiful...
and i think that nina have a beautiful t shirt (red one with eyes)
us , we are ok now, painting the walls o the flat
bisous
cecile