Day 7-8: Last night in Chiang Mai

Finally yesterday we manged to go on a tour out of this nice city. We did the standard kliche kinda thing. Ride an elephant, swim under a (very cold) waterfall and do some rafting on a river. Great fun even if not too original. We were only 6 people on the tour with me as the only non-american. That was great. Jasmina traded business cards with everybody probably assuming the trip was just for networking.


Today we visitied a temple and went to the day market. Great fun too. We are a little sad though. We really like Chiang Mai.

Tomorrow we fly to Bangkok. We don't have a hotel or guesthouse reservation there, but I hope it will work out anyway. Sunday we will try to make it to Cambodia. It sounds like quite the challenge.

However, the driver made a detour to a travel agency, which is one of the visa scam places.  I already had an e-visa (http://evisa.mfaic.gov.kh/e-visa/vindex.aspx), which I would recommend to avoid the hassle at the border.  The salesman at the travel agency wanted me to go into his office to talk to him and asked to see my passport.  I refused to hand him my passport and the tuk-tuk driver drove me away quickly when I told other travellers not to get their visa at that place, but to get it from Cambodian immigration at the border, where it will cost less.

Still I look forward to the adventure. Even if it scares the shit out of me.

In Chiang Mai we have really enjoyed the free wifi provided by our hotel. We probably won't have that for the entire trip (especially not in Bangkok), but I hope we will have it Cambodia. On paper we have reservation for places with wifi. You can follow my google buzz-stream here.