December 21, 2016
Got up early to catch our flight to Bangkok and then on to Chiang Rai. I took a picture of the small hotel we stayed at called “Scent of Sukhothai”, it was really nice and the staff was very accommodating. They even started breakfast a 1/2 hour earlier so that we could have breakfast before we were picked up to go to the airport.
We flew out on Bangkok Airways which we had been using for all of the internal flights within Thailand. I have been pretty impressed with them. The call themselves the boutique airline. This time the plane was an ATR-600, the same we flew out on. These days it is not very often you see commercial planes with propellers.
We arrived in Chiang Rai, had dinner at Bella Pizza next door to the hotel and then went walking in the town. At the center of the town is a big clock tower and hourly they light it up with different colors. There is also a night market with plenty of souvenirs and plenty of food. Sophon stopped to get his favorite snack. I had to ask what it was thinking it looked like potatoes. It is hot dogs, fish balls, tofu balls, and chicken balls cooked in hot oil. With or without ketchup (which wasn’t served with) this did not sound good.
On the way back to the hotel, we walked by a Cat Cafe. I had first seen one of these on “The Amazing Race”. It is a place where cat owners can take there cat to eat cream, dress up and play with other cats while you have a beer or coffee. There seemed to be a lot more cats at the cafe than there were people.
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