Day 128 – Chiang Rai.

We had a few hours left with our bike (Barbara) so after breakfast we decided to take it out again. We popped back to Central Plaza to pick up a few things we didn’t get yesterday and then went for a short drive around the town. We feel quite sad to hand her back as we became quite attached to it. Felt like a local because we just hopped on it and rode around wherever we wanted to go!

The next few hours were spent just chilling in the hostel as Chrissy wanted to get some drawing done for work, which gave me a chance to write some of this as I haven’t in a few days.

We then walked down the road and went out for dinner, which was really disappointing! As you know I like to look on Trip Advisor for places to go and I found some recently opened burger place by an Australian guy. I thought this must be good, I was totally wrong. The food was bland and terrible but the service was amazing. I should probably just copy and paste this as a TA review right now. After here we walked around the Night Bazaar (market), which was also disappointing. Everything was overpriced and no one wanted to bargain with me. I think because it’s here every night they don’t really care. This made me even more gutted about missing out on last night’s market.

The final thing I wanted to see in Chiang Rai was the Clock Tower show. There is a roundabout with a clock tower on it and on the hours of 7, 8 and 9pm it has a light and sound show. Imagine the Disneyland castle but smaller, basically the same thing. It was a cute little thing and went on for about 5 minutes. Once that was over we went back to the hostel to pack up all ready for our flight to Bangkok early tomorrow morning!

Day 92 – Sunburn Chill & Night Market

So Steph and Lucy decided to stay an extra night before heading to Thailand and luckily managed to fit in at Happy Hut Guesthouse, which is where I am staying for the night. We checked out of White Lodge at 12 and could check in to Happy Hut straight away, which was awesome so we didn’t have to carry our bags around, we are all in the same room as well which is a bonus!

Tim had a boat to catch at 2 so we had one final breakfast at Red Tomato before we said farewell. When he left we weren’t quite sure what to do. We didn’t really want to be in the sun as Lucy was a bit worse on the burn than me and we all agreed it wouldn’t be a good idea. We sat in the mall for a bit and used the wifi, then got some snacks and went back to our hostel. The internet there was terrible, worse than dial up!

We got ready and then jumped in a taxi to another night market. This one is further away than the other one but was still worth it. The taxi driver, who took us there, even said he’d wait for us to eat and then take us back, which was awesome! There were no samosas, so we were quite disappointed so we all went for some spring rolls, then I got some satay chicken and these little coconut pancake things for afters. DELISH!

We went straight back to our hostel after this as Steph & Lucy have a taxi picking them up for the ferry at 7.30am and I need to leave by 9am for my flight back to Kuala Lumpur.

Day 89 – Langkawi Night Market.

Once again check out was at 12 and that was probably one of the best nights sleep I’ve had in a while, despite the crazy thunderstorm at 4am. I walked to Starbucks, bought an Iced tea and settled into a sofa as I knew I was going to be here for a while. I wasn’t quite sure where White Lodge Chalet was, the booking was in Steph’s name and you couldn’t check in until 2 anyway.  It gave me time to write some of my blog and do some other research. It also meant I could send a card from Moonpig to Lisa as she just got a new job! Very exciting!

At half 1 I got a message saying they had checked in and would be with me soon. Steph, Lucy and Tim (a guy they met in Bali) met me and took we took my stuff back to the apartment. Next stop, lunch! We stopped in some hawker centre over the road and got 4 meals for about £5! We spent the rest of the afternoon chilling on Cenang beach, which is only a couple of minutes walk from where we are staying. Around 7pm we made our way back to shower and change before heading to the night market for dinner. Imagine a carboot sale but just food, that’s kinda what this night market looks like. I got some samosas and a pancake thing for dinner, meaning I spent 4.50 ringgit, which is about 85p!