Our breakfast is inside but right next to the hotel's little pool. The air is always pretty brisk in the mornings but by midday the heat returns. As Jay's sisters didn't see Wat Phra Singh the other day, we took a Grab rideshare out to it again. Recovery from their particular flu is taking a long time. So far, neither Jay nor I are coughing much. Renuka's is persistent. We returned from the temple to the gate in another Grab car and walked back to the hotel.
It really is quite amazing how many temples sit in Chiang Mai. Walk a little in any direction, in the old city and out, and you'll find a temple every few hundred meters.
This evening, Jay and I walked back to the Night Bazaar area by making a large square loop. It added a few more kilometers to my Fitbit data, but today we only added about 7.21 kms in total. I lost count of how many temples we walked past outside the old city walls.
We were in Chiang Mai longer than in Pattaya. Our total nights in Bangkok will be the most as we've already spent three nights plus the remainder of this trip. Jay and I could definitely spend more time in SE Asia. It is so easy to travel within the region once settled. So whether based again in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, or Indonesia, we could someday end up here again.
Interestingly though, we are thinking of re-visiting bits of South America next winter. It takes just as much energy to plan as it does to hope. So, why bother with the latter?