Chiangmai >>> Chiangrai // Day 2

Sawadeeka, back to blog about my travel diary ;)
The second day we would travel from Chiangmai to Chiangrai, the names are very close I know lol. It took three hours to reach by road, and before that Pi Yang brought us to visit some souvenir shops like, honey and paper-made products. Paper-made products were the best shop to go cause it showed us how a paper umbrella was created. Its truly hot in the factory but it's very fun to know how the process goes.

SA tree is used to make the paper for those products and this picture below is the wet version of the SA tree hhaha, I forgot they use its leaves or the wood to make the paper.. I think is wood :/ Was busying taking photos haha !

And then this lump of SA tree extracts will be mixed into water, and stir and stir and stir. After that they will use the net as shown below to filter up the SA tree extracts and let it dry under the sun. The dried layer on the net is the SA paper :) Amazing ? 

These are some products of SA paper :

Fan

Tanglung

Umbrella

 After spending a lot of money lol, cause we went a few shops and Mum spent quite a lot too hahaha, we started our journey to Chiangrai.

I was sleeping like a pig on the car until we reached the first stop, Thaweesin Natural Hot Spring.
It was drizzling there while we reach, and the weather was foggy, windy. The best time to soak your foot in hot water !

Due to the weather I feel like I was in a Europe country haha, super comfy and relax, that's why I love autumn and spring more than winter hehe. 

 Yeah and the best thing is you can drink a cup of coffee while soaking your foot hahahaha, LIKE A BOSS ! This is what life is all about, work hard and play hard.

Hahahaha and here is one idiot picture of mine ! A girl holding an umbrella and being showered by the fountain behind lmao. I found I look super short in this photo but I like it very much, I like being short sometimes :b

Oh ya and these two are my new friends haha

So after that we continued our journey to Chiangrai and I continued my journey of sleeping :b

And I woke up again while we reached Wat Rong Khun, or also called as White Temple. 

Very unlucky the weather was still raining, I was quite upset cause I cannot take good pictures since it's raining. And how could you look good in a photo if you were holding an umbrella ? No choice I have to accept it still. White temple is a place like heaven, you will say "wow" you first see it, and you will say "wtf" while you enter its washrooms hahaha. 

The designer himself called this place as heaven, the whole idea is about a good person will go to heaven and bad person will go to hell. So I could see the main part of the temple is the heaven and around the staircase to heaven ( It's actually the staircase to go into the temple ), there are some issues of hell, like ghosts, evils etc. I didnt take photos of the staircase cause we were not able to enter the temple, saddest thing ever ! We could only see those evil thingy at far far away. If I were to describe the design of the whole temple I will say it's perfect, and the designer is truly insane. He must be a mad person cause I dont know how would he come up with all these ideas.

Pictures above show the some evillll parts of the temple, I personally feel these are very cool, but my mum described them as very geli hhaha !

Okay, the first time you see this golden building, what will you think it is ? Guess please ! Haha.

The answer is TOILET !!!

As I mentioned earlier, you will say "wtf" when you see its toilet. And this golden building is the toilet. I think the designer must be thinking, hmmm toilet in heaven must be very grand ahaha, so he used gold to build a toilet beside the white temple.

I didnt know its a toilet until Pi Yang told us it is. Non stop saying wow and laughing while I enter the toilet because it is way too exaggerate lol. 

And you even have to change a pair of slippers that they prepared before you enter the toilet, so that you wouldnt dirty it haha, cool huh ? 

So how can you not take photo with such awesome toilet ?

A very very very lucky day, the designer of the temple was there lol, my dad will never let this kind of best luck wasted, so he grab me to take photo with this man. This man is really a great person, he designed this White Temple all by himself, paid all the costs to build this temple, and never ask for any returns. One thousand likes for you man !

Breathtaking view of White Temple, the best part of Chiangrai, yes it's all saved in my brain now. Say cheese, chichak ! The cute family of mine smiled to the fullest @ Wat Rong Khun, Chiangrai Thailand // 12 September 2014. 

After visiting White Temple, we headed to our hotel and checked in and rested for awhile... and then had our dinner.. and then Pi Yang brought us to a night market, the only one night market in Chiangrai haha ! He recommended us a very famous dumpling in Chiangrai.

Yes this is it ! The aunty is the owner of the tangyuan stall, I feel this aunty's face very cool and looks like a cartoon so I secretly took her photo hahaah. The photo on the right is ice cream tangyuan. First time I see this kind of flavour haha, ice cream tangyuan lol. very special actually, but I prefer the original taste of tangyuan. The whole night we ended up shopping eating drinking and then back to hotel to ooi ooi. 

And that's all for the second day in Chiangrai, Thailand :)

Betty.