Yearly trip begun with the land of smile, up north at the city of Chiang Mai. There are so many things to explore, be it food, coffee, arts, massage, shopping and even do nothing.
It was unfortunate, our flight was delayed at least two hours that afternoon. It wasn't comfortable to wait at KLIA2. It's a budget/low cost airport, yes I acknowledge. It was our first trip with little nephew too. Pleased that he behave well.
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| While waiting... |
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| Late afternoon sun |
After placing our luggage and check in. We headed out immediately, for dinner as well as night market trip.
Dinner -
Mr. Kai Restaurant
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| KhaoSoi - it's a must |
Shopping and Wondering -
Wualai Saturday Nightmarket
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| Pork rice - Packed for supper |
Our stay of 2 nights -
BB Mantra Boutique and Budget
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| Breakfast (included with stay) by the pool |
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| Street art near our stay |
Coffee pit stop #1 -
Art Cafe
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| Nice Piccolo - just beside our stay |
Tourist place -
Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep
Not our first visit here. Be a tourist once more.
Coffee pit stop #2 -
Graph Café
Famous for cold brew, but I grabbed a latte to go instead. Pricey.
Lunch after 1/2 day tour with Yoyo -
Huen Phen
Nice local patron restaurant. Though it may need a wait. We ordered our standard checklist dish - Khao Soi (curry noodle, two styled noodle). Tried the local pork sausage, blends well with a mug of local beer, especially on a hot afternoon. Yummy
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| KhaoSoi |
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| Wait |
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| Kitchen |
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| Pork Sausage |
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| On the way... spelling mistake? |
Massage, is a must -
Lila Thai Massage 5th
It wasn't a good timing for me. Yet, I still enjoyed my foot massage.
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| Massage center's deco |
Street foods, before we head to another hotel -
Wat Phan-Ohn
It's on Sunday night market. We had KhaoSoi (again, but no picture). On the day, we grabbed out lunch with any available food we could get there. Pork noodle was awesome.
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| pork noodle |
Stay #2 -
The Loft Room Hotel
We had a double king sized bed room. The kid enjoyed. Nice budget hotel with setup, it was spacious too.
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| Common area outside our room |
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| Included breakfast of our stay |
Coffee pit stop #3 -
Ristr8to Lab
Very nice alchoholic coffee served here.
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| Love the alchohol coffee |
Coffee pit stop #4 -
Nine One Coffee
Another nice cafe just 1 street away from our stay. But we took almost 1KM walk because google map went crazy.
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| Coffee |
Last Khao Soi -
Khao Soy Nimman
This wasn't too good. The sausage and noodle seems machine made.
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| Bye Chiang Mai |
Till we meet again.
