Day 4/5: Chiang Mai

The bus ride to Chiang Mai wasn't terrible. I slept through most of it. The last two days we went ATV'ing (which I am absolutely terrible at) and zip-lining through the jungle (which I thought was a bit boring, although my travel mate is scared of heights so it was funny watching him freak out on each one [everyone else on our group thought that was the best part too]).

Both events were in the magnificent jungle. It is really refreshing to be able to get some fresh air away from Bangkok.

When we went ATV'ing we came across a famous temple but couldn't enter because of the the Halacha we learned:( We did see some Monks so got pictures with them. It was really really funny. I won't say we made a mockery of their religion or desecrated their holy sites but yeah...

The ATV was just the two of us, a very nice Israeli guy and the tour guide.

At night we went to a Thai Boxing match where we watched people gamble on 10 year old children kick box. (One kid was knocked out from a hard kick to the face - he almost cried). It was really really disturbing and I had to leave several times as I couldn't bare watching it. So far Thailand is turning out to be an extremely disgusting place. The only thing we haven't seen yet is people eating live animals.

The Chabad in Chiang Mai is much smaller than Bangkok but still very impressive. Were staying at the Red Brick Hostel which is basically 90% Israeli.

Shabbat is soon and we will be going to Chabad obviously. Saturday night we are going to try and go to the night safari. On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday we will be going on a jeeping trip and then flying to Krabi (southern Thailand) to hang out on the islands - which is what I am really excited about.

Have a Shabbat Shalom!