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Overnight Bus to Phan

Posted by Stuart at 07:23 AM on August 22, 2002

At 5 AM this morning I found myself dropped off by the side of the road at hok yak phan or the "Big Junction in Phan, Thailand" (Actually it's translated as "Six Intersections in Phan", or where 6 roads meet at one point). Isara arrived on his motorcycle a few minutes later and picked me up. We headed back to his house, and I took a much needed nap after not sleeping very much on the 9 hour overnight bus ride.

Once I woke up, we took a motorcycle ride around his home village of Phan, and then rode a bus north for an hour to the city of Chaing Rai. We spent the day visiting several old temples, including the original home of the Emerald Buddha that is now housed in Bangkok. Tonight we ate another delicious, cheap Thai meal and watched Thai dancing and listened to Thai music. We were going to watch Men in Black II, but then realized it was dubbed in Thai. No thanks! So we had Swenson's ice cream instead.

We are spending the night here, and going to visit more temples and a few waterfalls tomorrow...