Magic Mountain....

Up at 8.30am to meet Emma & Liz at 9am to hire mopeds to go adventuring. We got a good price for the day & off we headed for the mountain to visit the Doi Suthep Temple which is at least 20 kms out of the city & up a very high, steep mountain. The road is really good up there so it was a pretty easy ride. The temple was really nice & we spent about an hour there looking around....Tanya even got blessed by a monk. There are alot of stalls there selling all sorts of things & lots of people wanting donations. You even had to pay to go to the loo....but they didn't even give you toilet paper....lol....lucky we know to carry tissues. When we left there we called into a waterfall about half way down the mountain in the National Park. It really was beautiful & the rainforest was gorgeous. We spent a bit of time there & then decided it was food time. We got to the bottom of the mountain & looked out for a local restaurant to stop at. As we thought it wasn't too hard to find one. As we were out of the city it was more of a locals place & not alot was written in English. We worked out what we wanted with the help of a guy that worked there & it turned out to be all good. The girls wanted to see how much it was to go to the Tiger place so we headed out another part of town to have a look. It took about an hour to get there & was pretty expensive so they didn't go in. We rode around a bit more & then headed off back to town & out the other side to go to the train station to find out about tickets to Bangkok. We got a bit lost getting to the road it is on and then rode for quite a while until we realised we must have passed it without knowing. After asking directions several times we finally found it...& of course it has a big train out the front...not sure how 4 of us missed that....lol. So we go to ask how much the tickets are & the very unenthusiastic girl informs us that the last train leaves on the 16th September & will not run again until the 2nd November due to track repairs......great, so it looks like another bus trip for us after all. It is getting close to sun down now so we head back & take the bikes back. We say goodbye to the girls for now & go & have a well needed shower. We had Tom Yum & Red Curry for dinner which was really nice. On our way home we go past a hot pink mobile bar with happy hour which was pretty hard to pass. A few dollars each for a double cocktail was just what we needed. He also had the best 80/90's megamix playing & said that he would put it on our USB if we wanted....cool, we will go back there for sure. We have had such a great day again today & will sleep well I think. Alvo xo