Chiang Mai, part 1

After China, we traveled to Thailand for about 2 weeks before heading back home.

First we stayed 6 nights in Chiang Mai, and had a ton of adventures there.

This is our $14/night hotel. Not too shabby huh? It even had a very nice balcony and a view!






One of the days, we went to Tiger Kingdom, where you can take pictures of you with big tigers. They were pretty big, and kind of scary, because you know how powerful they can be, but it was pretty neat and a little adrenaline pumping to be hanging out with these big lazy tigers.








After Tigers, there are also elephants! We did a program called "Elephant Keeper for a Day" at Patara Elephant Farms, which was AWESOME! We were given a ride to the farm, in the morning we bathed our elephants, and then we rode them to this stream/pond area and had a yummy picnic provided for us, and then we rode back to the farm and relaxed. It was a great experience and a bit scary, because when you are on top of the very tall elephant, the only thing keeping you from falling to the ground is your legs squeezing the elephants' head, because there wasn't really anything to grab other than its head bumps. Nevertheless, a fun experience.

Here's a video of me getting on my elephant

As for the rest of the days at Chiang Mai, we went to the zoo (they have pandas!), went to a few markets, and some temples. Nothing was really as exciting as the tigers and elephants, but they were all fun anyway.

Some pictures of the zoo:







And finally, here's a few pictures of chiang mai's temples and marketplaces.








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Chiang Mai, part 2

For the second part of Chiang Mai, we went to wat phrathat doi suthep, a temple on the top of a mountain, and the nearby phuping palace, which was actually known for the gardens around the palace. The flowers were absolutely beautiful there!







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Chinese New Year

For Chinese New Year, we traveled to China to visit my relatives, and to celebrate Chinese New Year. It was SO cold, but we braved the cold to go outside and set firecrackers, since it was actually legal in China. It was very loud and a bit scary, but I'm glad we did it. Here's a video of it.

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Last Days in Seoul

(This is posted months after the event so I probably won't remember most of it)

We left Korea in mid Februrary. For the last few weeks, we hung out with some friends and ate lots of cake and pizza and Korean food. We went to a teahouse in Insadong with little birds flying around, and a Brazilian barbecue place with lots of meat at songtan.

And in case anyone was wondering, we didn't do anything for Christmas or New Years - it was too cold to do anything anyway, we just stayed in our apartment for most of the time.














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Lotte World

(This is posted months after the event so I probably won't remember most of it)

Today we went to Lotte World. It was pretty much an amusement park inside a huge mall. There was also an outside part too, but it was so cold that we didn't go out. We rode a few rides, and that's about it. It felt like it was mostly for children theme park, but it was okay.








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