(day 5) chiang mai

No real plans for the day. We'd originally planned on doing some rock climbing via a tour, but I tried to book it online twice and didn't get a response.

Some pretty flowers.

This shop was interesting, it look like a candy shop but with tons of different asian snacks.

Stopped by a random restaurant/cafe to get smoothies. There are a lot of healthy, organic, non-GMO, etc type places in Chiang Mai. I'm not sure why but it's definitely a foodie center for Thailand, esp for vegans and vegetarians. Anyway randomly stopped by this one called Bubbles and it turned out to be ranked really high on TripAdvisor.

One was a fruit smoothie and the other was just fresh juiced fruits/veggies.

Our goal was this riverside restaurant, not for any reason in particular other than to be headed somewhere and get lunch.

Food pics.

Steamed fish with lime-chili dressing.

After lunch, had some coffee, then a tuk tuk back to the hostel for nap times! Our time in Chiang Mai was very very chill...

Wandered out at night to the Chiang Mai "night market". There are actually a few of them, they're supposed to have a great one on the weekends, but unfortunately we were there during the week. There is however, a food night market near the Old City south gate (where our guesthouse was), so we went to check it out. Multiple people had recommended Miss Pa's smoothies so we found it and tried it out.

It was HELLA good. Don't know what the heck she mixed in there but it was super flavorful, fresh, and sweet.

Didn't tried any other food other that, not super hungry and a bit wary of the street food.

Around the perimeter of Old City is a moat, it's lit up at night and kind of nice looking. For lack of anything better to do, and wanting to enjoy the nice evening air, walked around it for a while. Saw a variety of irises along the water's edge, fountains, lights, was pretty nice.

Ended the night back at Dash again. There was a dish I really wanted to try out, Khao Soi, it's a Chiang Mai/northern Thailand specialty (apparently from Burma). It's noodles in curry topped with like kind of those crispy won ton strips.