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Time to go!

Guess what? I'm at the same gate for departure in Korea as I was over four months ago! Crazy. The time has flown by. I had a amazing time in Thailand. And I just traveled around Seoul for the day and that was great as well. My adventures have been life changing and I want to thank you all for reading about them. It's been quite the experience. I didn't love every minute of it but I wouldn't trade my experience in Thailand for anything. Thanks for all the support and thoughts. Expect some more updates, especially for the last few days, but for now, it's been a blast :)

Dec 14th

Lamphun! Had breakfast at the yellow place on our walk to the bus station. About our hostels real quick: our first place was kikies. Pretty nice. A little dirty but overall good. In the north of the city and close to more Thai stuff and less touristy. Next place was Chada house. Nicer place but the woman who ran it all seemed real tired. She warmed up to us after she learned I could speak some Thai and we would talk about the annoying farang (white tourists). So now we're good friends :D but anyway, Lamphun was awesome! Great Thai bus ride. So cool to experience local travel methods. And 20 baht each! Ride was about an hour through beautiful Thailand. Got to Lamphun where no bady speaks English and there are no Farang. So nice!! We walked around and got lots of stares lol went to beautiful temples an enjoyed being in real Thailand instead of tourist central. Caught the bus home and went to a beautiful temple in Chiang Mai and listened to monks chanting. Then we played with cats and a young Thai boy. Then we walked past a street performer playing drums. He gave me a go. Not nearly as well lol headed to a Saturday market I was previously unaware of. Turned put to be pretty touristy like the Sunday market so a bit of a let down but we still had fun and bought good gifts. Headed back late and walked past a beautiful temple that was open. Got to pray at any time of day! There was a magnificent temple that was holy ad women weren't allowed inside because the temple would be ruined and the women would be ruined. So, naturally, neither of us entered. After that we headed home to sleep for Chiang Rai the next day. 

Dec 10th

Breakfast at "yellow place" (Thai place with great prices and great food). I had mashed rice soup. So good! Then went to a bunch of temples: wat Chiang Mon, wat Chedi Luang, wat Pantao, and the recycling temple. Then headed to Loi Crow to walk through the redlight district. That was rough but good for E to see. We went to a beautiful bridge and a riverside restrant to lighten the mood and checked out the night Bizzar and the Muslim part of town, then headed to sleep. 

Chiang Dao

Chiang Dao. Love it! City of stars :) Thaton tomorrow!

Dec 16

Went to 5 beautiful temples in the morning, the kings monument and the black houses: an artists huge collection of animal skins, bones, shells and crazy other things!

Had a great time! Then headed back to Chiang Mai for a bus to Chiang Dao tomorrow :)

Dec15th

In Chiang Rai right now. Night Bizzar and white temple. Really great day. Traveled around Thai style by using public buses! Adventure! Lamphun was great. No white people! We're tired of Chiang Mai with that aspect. Not ganna try and sleep there again. Going to Chiang Dao tomorrow. Literally the "city of stars." Can't wait!!! :D