The night we got into Chiang Mai the Sunday night market was going on.  It was so close to our hotel that the taxi couldn’t take us to our hotel.  It just dropped us off at the market and we had to walk the rest of the way.  However, after we checked into the hotel, this made it easy to run back out and wander the market.  I saw a fortune teller and remembering previous conversations with Noi about fortune tellers, I decided to have her read my cards for fun.  Something about headaches, lots of work, lots of money, making jewelry, true love (but not until next year).  As with most fortune tellers there was a lot of vague things that seem to be unique to me.  We’ll see what happens…..

We had a day in Chiang Mai before Andy headed back to Singapore.  I looked up museums in Chiang Mai and we found the Insect museum.  We decided that sounded unique.  It was.  We got up to a house and there was a sign on the gate that said to ring the doorbell.  A lady came and opened the museum for us, charged us the fee, and gave us some water.  The museum was full of fossils, bugs, rocks, elephant statues and all sorts of other interesting things.  The insect collection was incredible.  Incredible and creepy all at the same time.  There were also many many many signs about love, life and loving the world around us.  The couple that started the collection were both malaria and mosquito researchers and this collection is part of their life long passion for their work.  The woman who let us in, was in fact, Dr. Rampa Rattanarithikul herself.  The highlight of the museum was getting to read all about her and her husband and then meeting her.

http://www.thailandinsect.com/

After the museum we took a taxi to a nearby waterfall.  It was rather underwhelming.  After the waterfall, we found a man selling bugs and Andy decided it was a good plan to buy and eat some bugs while I videoed it.  I don’t know how he did it.  It grossed me out just videoing it.  He said they were horrible.  We walked through the arboretum and then found some lunch.  I’m not sure if I am ill or what, but I’ve been feeling tired and dizzy a lot lately.  This hit around lunch too.  The heat probably added to it too.  So after lunch, it was nap time.

In our search for things to do we saw an advertisement for a cabaret show.  That sounded fun so we went to the night market, found the show and bought tickets after dinner.  The theatre/stage looked like we were going to see a cabaret in someone’s backyard/garage.  The show was very armature, but it was also fun and cheap.  So, overall, I’d say we got a good value for our money.

Tomorrow Andy is heading back home to Singapore.  After he was so nice and introduced me to his friends and showed me around Singapore, it was nice to be able to show him around Thailand a little.  Andy, Ivan and Judy should be back in Thailand in October.  I am hoping I can meet up with them then.

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