Chiang Mai day one!

I went up and had a nice breakfast at the hotel. I walked out to find my booking for the next days. It was hard to find as the small roads were not in a systematic order and it didn't matched the map. I found it just to find that the room they offered me wasn't the one I'd booked - at least according to my memory. So I told them to cancell my booking. On my way back I tried to find a new place but it was more booked then I thought! Back to my hotel I negotiated and finally I decided to stay the next three nights! 

I walked out to find out how to get to Bangkok and a flight was at a good price and the train should cost about a forth of that. Didn't make a dicission yet. 

The old town used to be surounded by a wall and from there I started to walk the walk described in Lonely Planet and again, I hadn't learned the street system so I missed in the beginning. I met a cpoule from Germany that I have met now in many places since Vientiane! We chated a little and I walked again. Most places they showed are Wats, i.e. Buddhist Pagodas. Though, I passed the police head quarter and there was this staue of a police man carrying a woman and a child looking. I havn't found out the story behind. While there I heard a crusch, and it was a tourist woman on a moto hitting another moto. It went well for them both!

I went back and I hired a bicycle at the hotel and cycled around and out to the train station. I also cycled to the most famous Pagoda. The new thin here was that they had statues, very alike reall people of old senior monks, almost a bit scary and a different cult that I didn't feel like the buddhism I learnt about! 

Back to the hotel for a beer and then a bite to eat. It was very good. 

The east port to the old town.

The Police head quarter.

The monks cult - very human statues.

  

One of the monks allmost an alive statue.

The railway station.

The oldest and nicest Pagoda!

Beatiful flowers outside a pagoda!

Another beatuiful detail from a Pagoda.