After leaving the amazing experience I had in the monastery, and feeling like I was floating on clouds, I headed back to Chiang Mia to begin a bit of sightseeing. I check into a tiny hotel called well Little Hotel where I pay $3 dollars a night for my own room and a shared bathroom. It is a little dirty but cozy and clean enough for $3 dollars a night and maintained by a lovely little old Thai woman. The only problem was I was so zenned out from my meditation experience I just could not be bothered to choose touristy stuff to do, I just wanted to appreciate the moment, and to help me the world produced my friend Viv, a lovely, bubbly, dreadlocked yoga doing hippy Australian mate of mine I worked at Yha with in Sydney. Signing into The interweb for the first time in almost a month, I jumped on facebook and remember that Viv was in Thailand I asked her where about she was. Within seconds she responded Chiang Mia. Plans were made for a night of silliness, and as I sat down to dinner with her and her English friend Eli to a hot papaya and beef salad and a beer (The first meat and the first beer I have had in almost a month) I could not be happier. I felt so clear, so centred and so ready for whatever the universe wants to offer me, and it offered me an amazing collection of Viv and Eli’s international friends. I felt so open that these international travelers teaching English in Thailand felt like instant friends, Alex from England, Brigitte from South Africa, Josh from Washington and Dani from Boston were just the first round of amazing people I would meet as we drank $1.50 mojitos at a little bar lit only by candle light named griffin bar. I LOVE CHIANG MIA.
The next few nights and days are full of good food, drinking, dancing and lovely company as I shoot around on motorcycles, bowl, and see a million monastery’s on the backs of some of the most beautiful hang overs of my life. I never want to leave. The morning after our first night out I ask Viv to help me find a way to stay, If I only had had the money I would have spent a year living there, meditating, learning yoga and massage and adventuring with such an international smorgasbord of awesome English teachers and foreigners. I spend a day following renewing my tourist visa at the Burma boarder in which I spent an hour in a Burmese market and visit the famous White temple. This temple designed by a Thai Buddhist Artist is one of the crazier temples I have seen, and something only a super wealthy artist could create. Next we were off to the famous Giant Golden Buddha, Literally a 100 foot Buddha at the next of the Burmese Triangle, the river intersection that connects Burma, Thailand, and Leos and was home to the biggest opium and Heroin drug smuggling ring in the world. Here is just the beginning of the bizarre mix of things that Southeast Asia has to offer.
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