It´s travel time again. This means 5 - 6 hours in a bus from Sukhothai to Chiang Mai, the second largest city in Thailand, but still quite small. Most passengers were sleeping - I was lucky enough to have a window seat, so I was busy watching the landscape pass by and with every new mountain showing up, a smile crossed my face. Finally everything around was green and blooming and just beautiful.
At the bus stations we stopped there were the typical thai toilets where one had to squat down and usually use water to clean up. But so far they always had paper available for the western tourists. So far I didn´t have to use my own roll of toilet paper I had brought along just in case.
As soon as we got off the bus in Chiang Mai we were surrounded by a crowd of taxi drivers. We found one lady who really offered a fair price. To me it seemed like every town does pretty much have their very own kind of taxis. In BKK they were yellow-green or pink limousine cars, mostly Toyota, here they use pick-up trucks equipped with benches and a roof - most of them dark red. And of course the tuk tuks are always around as well.
There was not really much left to do that day... so we met up for dinner and afterwards entered John´s Place - which turned out to be a popular spot with other travellers. With some Chang beer we all agreed that we liked this city a lot already. It did not seem crowded at all, the bars and restaurants were nice and unique, small shops did sell quality products and not the everywhere available odds and ends for tourists. This could only be a good thing.
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