3 flights, 5 time zones and once again couchsurfing — Start in Chiang Mai

sorry only google translate… 🙁

So now it was time again. Exactly 701 days after departure to our world trip we were back at Munich Airport, in the same terminal of the same airline and the same destination: Dubai! Well, this time yes only for 4 hours, but we wanted to put out the analogy times.

For flights from Munich to Dubai and Bangkok to Chiang Mai, there are actually not with not much to say, except that he is seeeeeehr long, Emirates is just a great airline, the A380 is simply a cool plane, the deck chairs in the airport of Dubai can match the comfortable ground from the airport in Dallas and Bangkok Airways (with which we from Bangkok to Chiang Mai fly) so often is delayed, that the lounge is available for all passengers are available. We had to limp four hours late even lucky (due to a problem of he turbine, also not so hot …)! However, we must probably fair to say that we have the flight probably missed without the delay, as our Emirates flight from Dubai to Bangkok because of a broken door had 30 minutes late (and we like to fly in nem A380 without doors ???). Well, so much for the flight.

Finally arrived in Chiang Mai, we took a airport shuttle to our AirBnB for the first night (for 11 € / night). We came coincidentally right past the Saturday Night Walking Market, which we directly or insecure made after check-in, so as not to give the jetlag stand a chance. Who was on an Asian night market before, knows how it goes as to who should not catch the quickly times 🙂
The next morning we were then from Jeab, our first couchsurfing hostess, picked up in front of our AirBnB. Actually we wanted to spend the next two nights with her, but since she had caught food poisoning in Sri Lanka, we thought it would be decent to stay in the “Hotel”. But they wanted to spend despite her illness the day with us – what we naturally without assumptions hesitation – and showed us a brilliant cafe, helped us with our first Thai restaurant visit and took us then to a rice field around Chiang Mai , The rice field itself was unspectacular, but definitely worth seeing and was also right next to a super quaint cafe. In addition, it also has a charm of its own, sometimes to boots through a rice field in the middle 😉 Jeab then took us with to let his home to us to try a Thai crepes and served us even a dragon fruit. What it is not everything here 🙂

In the evening she drove us again in the city to us by the Sunday Night Market strolls. Especially thanks Jeab the perfect start was in our Thai adventure. They also answered us even the stupid question about Thailand, so we hopefully can now sail around some of the biggest faux pas!

The next day was unfortunately rained out (stupid rainy season ;-)) so we just wandered again a bit through the city to (duh) felt 10 Temple to look at before we left by bus to Pai. But this is another story!

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