Monday, November 18, 2013

Loi Krathong and Chiang Mia Beauty Pagen



















Reed Trying to be in the pageant.

I am not sure what it was all about but there were hundreds more probably thousands of men dressed in drag for the Loi Krathong festival.

Top of photo is a couple launching a flying lantern  over the Peng River while a younger girl pushes out a floating Krathong.

Buddhist Temples

Inside Showing Timber Framing 

Elephant on the side


Monks praying in the Buddhist Temple

More neat woodwork.






Three Kings Statue Chiang Mai - This is a very important landmark.  Many of the locations we needed to find were based off of this landmark so we had to find this place first.  Directions - Maps - Street names / Those things just don't really exist in Chiang Mai.



Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Market and te Aquarium.

 The Saturday Night Walking Street Market.
Dogs driving cars


Riding on the back of a bus - The buses are really just the covered bed of a pick up truck with benches.

Kids on a Thai bush

Kari and Reed riding the Thai bus

Boating on the Peng River

Sushi at the night market.

Food and Clothing the Market is Huge

The kids loved the fruit smoothies.  Well, I did too.

A group of blind musicians.  They were good.

Kari and I bought the top center paining

The artist and his painting

We spent a lot of money at the market and I was afraid we may have been impulse buying, but now that I see bought gongs, a singing bowl, fried crickets, key chains, carved elephants stuffed animals, and paintings I can see we got only what we needed.

Chaing Mai Zoo Aquarium

Cole and a Stingray 

Raine and the Stingrays

Kids in the Aquarium 

Looks like they are having fun.

Big Sea Turtle resting on the glass of the aquarium.

Koala at the zoo.

Raine wanted this picture of the map.

Gorilla with a chicken behind it.

Some kind of deer?

Monkey hanging over the river.


Elephants ready to give rides.





Some kind of deer pulling a panda???