Travel notes of 600 words in Chiang Mai, Thailand

In this hot summer, I took my daughter out of the besieged city to escape from the summer.

Summer resort: Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Many people say it's too hot to go to Thailand at this time! Actually, it is not! Chiang Mai, Thailand is located in northern Thailand. The temperature in July and August is about 26 degrees. Chiang Mai, surrounded by the shade of the ancient city and temples, is a clean and leisurely summer resort. I stayed in Chiang Mai for three weeks, and I was neither corrupt nor abusive. A food stall, a house and a trip cost a total of 8000 RMB.

Let's look at the picture and talk about this ancient city known as "Thailand Rose" from all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Transportation and visa: The most economical way to get from China to Chiang Mai is to take the most popular low-cost airline: AirAsia flight:

1. Hangzhou-AirAsia Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur-Chiang Mai Asian Airlines

2. Guangzhou-Bangkok AirAsia

Bangkok-Chiang Mai AirAsia

The earlier airasia tickets are booked, the cheaper they are. Generally speaking, if you can plan and book air tickets one year in advance, you can control the cost of international round-trip air tickets within 1000 RMB/person (excluding domestic transportation).

Visa: a 30-day tourist visa for Thailand can be issued by Taobao, and it can be issued in 3 working days by sending a passport and a 2-inch photo. The charge is 240 yuan RMB.

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There are different types of hotels or homestays in Chiang Mai. There are many international brand hotels, which are generally outside the ancient city. If you choose to stay in the ancient city and experience the life in the ancient city, then B&B is the best and most economical choice. Chiang Mai B&B is a major feature of Chiang Mai tourism. If you go to Chiang Mai instead of living in B&B, you can say that you have never been to Chiang Mai.

The price of B&B in Chiang Mai ranges from 20- 120 RMB.

Each homestay has its own characteristics:

I'm a little corrupt because I have children. I chose a boutique hotel instead of a homestay. One stay is 20 days, so the hotel gave a good price, 1000 baht (RMB 220).

The hotel is located in a quiet alley. gate

The entrance is winding and secluded.

Next to the wooden tables and chairs is the breakfast table.

Small garden. Sometimes I just sit here and surf the Internet.

Stair corner

The front garden is where my daughter does her homework and plays every day.

Take the path to the back door, and the vegetable market is the exit. The path is full of massage shops and cafes.

The room is refreshing and full of European style.

In short, a boutique hotel with high cost performance.

Then I went to Gap's home, a stylish homestay, recommended by the self-help bible Lonely Planet. This hotel is very old and has a strong Thai style. Every night 120 RMB. Many foreigners stay and don't accept reservations.

Speaking of homestays, let's talk about European and American backpackers in Chiang Mai.

In the ancient city of Chiang Mai, most of the people coming and going in the alleys are backpackers from Europe, America or Australia. They are young, dressed casually, or alone, or in groups, becoming a striking landscape. Many young backpackers choose to stay in the cheapest homestay, for only 20 yuan a day, and a large group of young people are mixed together. So if you want to practice your spoken English, choose a homestay. There are many foreigners who can chat with you enough every day.

Eat:

In Chiang Mai, you will find that everything belongs to the grassroots and luxury is nothing.

Grassroots are the main trend here. Stay in a homestay, eat, and eat roadside stalls.

If we mention the roadside stalls in China, we can shrug them off. But in Chiang Mai, if you don't eat roadside stalls, you will starve to death. ......

Roadside stalls in Chiang Mai are part of local life and the main theme of living abroad.

Thai food is roughly divided into northern Thailand and southern Thailand.

Thai food includes curry crab and shrimp in sauce that we are familiar with.

Last time we had a "big meal" in Krabi in southern Thailand during the Spring Festival this year.

It was a big meal, but in fact, the two families only spent more than 500 yuan, or in a seafood restaurant with invincible sea view.

Let's take a look at Thai food in Chiang Mai, which is much more common. The price is also civilian, with an average of 30-50 yuan per day for two people, and the food is not bad.

Afternoon and evening snacks

These are all daily foods, and a few dollars can send a Thai meal. Although he is a civilian, he is famous. For example, this fried noodles sprinkled with peanut powder is the famous Thai fried noodles PHA THAI, which is really inexhaustible.

One day I went to a restaurant in northern Thailand recommended by Lonely Planet and enjoyed a visual feast. It costs more than 30 RMB per person.

The fruit is sold like this:

I bought a box of peeled grapefruit for four dollars and sprinkled it with salt powder and pepper. It's amazing!

38 yuan bought a bunch of mangosteen, durian and grapefruit.

Plus the buffet hot pot for thousands of people in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

It is cool to eat hot pot in summer. Not to mention, let go of your stomach and eat, the price is lovely, 35 RMB/person.

The store we went to could not hold 1000 people, but it was 300 people. Things slipped away, dozens of vegetables and meat, and desserts. The drinks are extra.

Thai hot pot is divided into upper and lower floors, with a conical barbecue table above and boiled vegetables below. The highlight of Thai hot pot is barbecue oil. Directly put a piece of fat meat on the cone-shaped barbecue table, and the fragrant lard will flow down, and the roasted meat will be full of fragrance.

Let's look at the previous picture:

Because eating is too forgetful, the big scene of eating hot pot was not photographed.

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Now get to the point. Someone asked me, how did you spend your time in one place for three weeks?

Well, I tell you, these three weeks are really not enough for me. Once I get into shape, I will go home.

There are many things to kill time in Chiang Mai:

A lively Sunday market

Sunday market is the largest market in northern Thailand. From four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, small stalls were put out one after another, and the whole market was bustling. You can buy many handicrafts.

Snacks are also a big selling point in the Sunday market, and there are countless snacks.

It's another heavy fried insect meal, and there are really many people who try it.

For my daughter, the most fun thing in the weekend market is to set up stalls there to earn pocket money.

Take the Korean headdress we bought in Taobao in China, find a place to spread it, and a stall will open!

Although there are not many things, the shopkeeper is still a little girl and the business is really good. He sold 900 baht for the first time and the profit rate was 50%. The little girl and her friends are busy selling, collecting money and changing money, just like a small shopkeeper. Working meals are also eaten standing up. It's hard! From four to eight, the booth will be closed.

Continue to talk about Chiang Mai's play:

Half of the people in this city are backpackers from Europe and America. What are they doing here?

In a daze:

Just a cup of coffee or a glass of beer can kill the whole day in a daze in a hotel, in a roadside stall or in a cafe. The city is full of people sitting in a daze. Time seems to lose its meaning here.

My daughter and I go to a coffee shop called funky dog opposite the hotel almost every morning. Wifi is fast. Bosses and proprietors in their 60s are homeless. Only in this season will they appear in shops. Every morning, the boss will fry coffee beans in front of the store, and the aroma of frying is overflowing. We are always the first to enter the store, occupying the best position, surfing the Internet, doing homework and chatting with the proprietress.

Cafe?

The boss is frying coffee beans.

The proprietress is over 60 years old and still very young. So I also want to travel around as much as possible, trying to find the medicine of immortality. Sorry to shoot the front, I only took one back. I like her skirt very much.

Massage:

Thai massage is no stranger to everyone, with great strength and lovely price. Usually 30-40 RMB an hour. The environment is very good I will do thai massage near the hotel the next day. A girl named PADI, weighing 200 Jin, became my royal masseuse. Take a nap before the massage parlor:

Another thing that attracts backpackers is learning to cook Thai food.

There are many schools with Thai characteristics here. One-day course is about RMB in 200 yuan. From the morning, the teacher will take a group of students to the market to buy food, then go back to school and start teaching cooking, and finally eat their own dishes, which is what Europeans and Americans who come here must do.

So, every morning, the vegetable market in the alley behind the hotel is so bustling.