Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Nan, Thailand
I am in Nan now and brrr it is cold! I never thought Thailand could be so cold (just think of bangkok).
And I am loving it here. People are friendly. And they don't try to scam you for money unlike Bangkok.
Nan is really a town you need thai to get around. Shopkeepers barely speak thai, so I had to translate thai to english for Tegra.
We stayed at this guesthouse called Nan Guesthouse, and we were the only ones in the Guesthouse until the next day when someone checked in. It was cheap, only 170baht for a double bed room, which meant each person paid 85baht a night! Fan no aircon, but it was so cold in Nan the fan was redundant. Shared bathroom but it didn't matter as it had hot water (so hard to find in cheap Guesthouses) and anyway there weren't any other travellers to share with.
Had to pay 100baht for entrance to the Nan National Museum. Damn, because they thought I was Thai, until they saw Tegra and got the idea that I might not be local, which would be a mere 20B.
Shit english "...these lust two"
Food is cheap too. We had vegetarian buffet for 15baht! And we could buy cheap food at the night market too.
Nan is really a nice change, an untouched city.
We paid 1200baht each to go elephant trekking up in the mountain. Nan, unlike Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai, is largely untouched by tourist.
When we came back we just chilled by the River Nan
