Today we visited the ancient temple in Chiang Mai, apparently there were lots of stairs to climb so I opted for the elevator but when we got there it really wasn't that many! So I went down the stairs when leaving.
We chilled by the pool and at 2pm made our way to the temple via taxi.
When we went into the temple I have never felt more peaceful, it was so quiet and certainly a place to think about things. Monks were walking around and locals were praying, as well as the tourists as well.
There were two major things which I will never forget which happened at the temple:
1) we went into the Buddha temple, we all had to crouch down so we weren't taller than the Buddha statues. I had to crawl over to the monk who then said a prayer to me, splashed me with some water and tied a white band on my wrist to wish me good luck in my future, felt quite overwhelmed when I came out of the temple;
2) the second thing was when there was a bunch of straws in a cup all numbered from 1-26, you had to shake them until one eventually came out. Whatever number fell out you would then go and take the luck message from the wall. Mine was 26 and was excellent- apparently my life is going to get better and better :))))) that felt really good.
After taking lots of pics of the temple etc we then headed back to the hotel where we got ready, we had a meal out and then had some drinks and went back to the hotel for a well earned sleep!