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15.03.2009

Started the day with Sunday morning worshiping. It felt so great that both Bernard and I could make ourselves available on Sabbath.

We dropped by a laundry shop while we were on our way to the church. I had a total of 3.5kg dirty clothes and pants after the Bong Duet trekking! That’s freaking a lot! Haha.

Praise and worship session was conducted in Thai. Even though I couldn’t understand, yet I knew the hearts to worship Lord are the same. Fortunately, there was a translator helping us translating the sermon into English.

Felt so good that we were invited to have lunch after the service too. ^_^ We headed to Chiang Mai Zoo after the morning church service. Why zoo? I am not a child anymore.

Well, the reason was very simple. We were there after the two stars – Chuang Chuang and Lin-Hui, the giant pandas.

Chuang Chuang, male, 9 years old, 135 kg and 170 cm (OMG! It’s taller than me!)

It was funny to see Chuang Chuang being very active that day. Walking, playing, eating.. It was entertaining to watch him munching the bamboos. Looks cute!

Lin-Hui, female, 8 years old,  105 kg and 160 cm. She’s currently under pregnancy watch! And I believe this is a good news to all Thai?

However, she spent most of time sleeping that day. *sigh*

Of course, we do go-see other animal exhibits too. Just not to waste the 200 baht entrance fees. Hehe.

We left the zoo about 4 pm and took a baht taxi to go up Doi Suthep, the highest geographical point in Chiang Mai and it is said to be one of the must go places in Chiang Mai. The famous Wat Prathat is located here too.

From here, one can see the whole Chiang Mai City. The heavy haze of dry season had somehow turned us down. Felt very disappointed.

The disappointment doubled upon entering Wat Prathat. This beautiful temple on the mountain is currently under renovation! Its beauty has been covered by the bamboo sticks.

Nothing much can be done here besides taking some nice photographs.

These Buddha images have a story for each of them. But, I didn’t know about the stories are about. Just knew that these 7 statues represents the 7 days in a week. That’s all. ^_^

We went back to Chiang Mai City at about 6 pm after an hour journey on a baht taxi. Took our laundry and rested a while before going to the famous Rachadamnoen Road Sunday Walking Street.

It is just a 5-minute walk from Eagle House No.2! And, guess what.. It was so busy and I needed to squeeze through the crowd!

The road is just a quiet and tranquil road on other nights. No car, hardly any human. See the difference? ^_^

The fun part in this market is that it sells Halal foods too! I made me suddenly missing our Malaysian Nasi Kandar, Nasi Lemak and other yummy yummy local cuisines. Frankly saying, the Halal food tasted as nice as the other non-Halal Thai food!

I called it a day after watching some cultural dances of Northern Thailand. I think it is a competition or what so ever similar.

I slept early today since I must wake up very early the next morning for Chiang Rai and Golden Triangle Trip!