Day 088 of Our Winter: It's pretty hard not to trip over a temple when walking around the old town of Chiang Mai. The old city center is roughly a square area approximately 1.5 to 1.6 km on each side. Within that area there are more than 30 major temples and upwards of 100 smaller shrines.
Our hotel is just outside of the former city walls on the other side of the moat. It takes us around five minutes to walk into the Tha Phae Gate, on the western side. We did that after breakfast this morning. Renuka sister is still in recovery mode. She has a very raspy voice from the sore through. She's coughing less than yesterday.
We walked through the Tha Phae Gate and along Rachadamnoen Road. The nights are a cool 16C but as soon as the sun starts shining it quickly rises. The temperatures were around 30C but the air is drier than what we felt in the south. Thailand is a Buddhist country as is Sri Lanka. The religion differs here but the history of the teachings are similar.
We had lunch at Dada Kafe. For our evening outing, we walked two the Chiang Mai Night Bazaar area near the big hotels. It was less than a kilometer but going there and back did mean we did another 9.74 kms today. It seems hard to avoid doing this much walking!
We brought back some food for a light meal back at the hotel.
