This is my last post from Chiang Mai as in about four hours I will be in the train back to Bangkok. Yesterday and this morning I have been taking it easy as I planned. I finished one book and traded it into another one. I also bought another book about emergence. I have started to read it and it seems quite interesting. If my new passport is in promised schedule I will get it either tomorrow or day after tomorrow. After that I plan to take another train that wil...

Today I tried to upload some pictures here but I learned that my favourite Internet cafe does not allow any uploads. Before that, I was able to partially upload five pictures from here. Yesterday I was supposed to hike and drive downhill, but because I was the only person who had booked for that tour I switched to "Advanced Cross-country" group. It did an about 30 km ride down from the mountain top at 1600 m all the way to the plains at 400 m height. T...

Yesterday I arrived to Chiang Mai by train almost according to schedule (only about one hour late). Yesterday afternoon I made a little walk around the guesthouse and took a swin in the pool. The first impression about Chiang Mai was fairly positive. It is cheaper and somewhat cleaner here than in Bankok, people are not quite as keen to sell me something I do not need and it is also cooler here. This morning I took a longer walk to the Nationa Museum here to lea...