Photo album: "Chiang Mai"
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We leave Bangkok in train, at noon, on Monday March 25th, 2008. We are still travelling in third class but this time we are sitting on the wooden seats. There is no restaurant car in the train but we can order a meal. The meal, a plate of rice with chicken or fish, is delivered directly to our seat, with a fork and a spoon. We don't use knife to eat in Thailand, everything is already cut in small pieces. We arrive in Chiang Mai on Tuesday morning. We find a lodging in a hotel for young men situated inside a school. At the end of our stay, the very day of our leaving, we find out that a few things have disappeared: 700 baths in André's rucksack and my last four unused films of 36-exposure Kodachrome II, in mine.
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About ten kilometres south of Chiang Mai, a buffalo is browsing in a dry rice field. |
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Other rice fields under water. |
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Praying faithful in temple Wat Phra That, on Doi Suthep.. |
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On top of the 309-step stairway leading from the road to the temple of Wat Phra That. |
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Bloomy tree close to the stairway. |
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On both sides of the stairway, a seven-headed Naga (serpent) serves as handrail. Its body is covered with "scales" of ceramic. The heads are down and the tail on top of the stairway. |
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A zebu in a rice field, it is tied up through a system with a balancing pole which prevents the cord to touch the ground. |
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At 70 km south of Chiang Mai, we went to see the Mae Klang waterfalls where we have found some coolness after the long ride in bicycle under the sun. |
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Rice fields under water and, a little farther, a man driving an antique plough pulled by a zebu. |
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Bloomy shrubs. |
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Me, near the river Mae Ping, 15 km north of Chiang Mai. Behind, several norias and a footbridge in bamboo. |
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