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The 3 things we had wanted to do in Chiang Mai were the cookery course, meditation and go to the tiger reserve, which is what our plan was to do today. However a lot of people seemed to think that they were cruel to them and gave them drugs to sedate them, contrary to what the leaflet said about it.
To cheapen things we were going to go to 7-eleven to get some cereal or something but got talking to people in the hostel, and so were there when 3 of the girls prepared a breakfast feast- bread, croissants, guacamole, baked beans, tomatoes, olives (normal ones and very strange tasting ones), cheese and curry scrambled egg with mushrooms and spring onions. Melissa, the Australian girl, had brought some dried strawberries so we also had a few of those. The girls wouldn't let us give them any money or do the washing up to say thank you!
Alice had given her map to Nat the night before with the markets marked on so it took us a few goes at walking up and down streets to find the day market. On the way we found a coffee shop so Alice had a kiwi juice and I had chocolate milkshake and we shared some biscuits sandwiched together with a kind of jam type stuff At the day market, there was an indoors area where a mini stage was set up with an awful male singer, accompanied by a backing group of awful females, wearing very little clothing. I don't think there was any attempt at enforcing an age restriction of watching this!
We walked back to our hostel, where there's a nearby masseur and had a foot massage. First they scrubbed our feet with some exfoliating stuff which must have had some oil in it or something as it left them feeling very soft- and a lot cleaner than they were before (the dirt my maxi skirt picks up brushes on my feet). Parts of the massage I didn't enjoy so much like such as when she cracked my toes by pulling them out, and massaging the tops of my feet so I could feel her pressing my bones and going in between my toes with quite a bit of force so it felt like she was splitting it in two.
Then we met Nat and co. to go to the night market with them (they'd also gone to the day market). There was a disappointing amount of food stalls so Alice ordered Pad Thai and I had egg fried rice with pork. However the Pad Thai had chicken and pork in, and the rice wasn't that good so I had Alice's Pad Thai and she had a banana rotee.
We got a tuk-tuk to the bus station; Indian transport had made Alice paranoid about where to get the bus from. The bus company seem to think they're an airline- you put your luggage on a conveyor belt, and a lady who looks like an air hostess does a safety announcement at the beginning of the journey (in Thai) and hands out sandwiches, peanuts and tomato, orange and passion fruit juice. The seats inflate and deflate for some reason, but are by far the most comfy of bus seats we've been on.
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