My buddy Kee Mun + his family and us went to Chiang Mai and Bangkok in March for a holiday. We met at KL's LCCT and left as a group. This was the first time we holidayed together and initially it took a bit of getting used to each other. We stayed at the Centara Duangtawan hotel in the heart of the city and near to the night markets.
Kee Mun and I immersed in Thai traditional massage and foot massage during our stay whilst Jun wanted to try the fish massage. I didn't see her asking for more after that experience .....
We also went to the Long Neck Village and elephant sanctuary, did a bit of rafting (very benign) amongst other visits to the orchid farm, Thai temple, morning market, antique market, craft markets and the night market stores.
Bullock cart ride .... bumpy ride
The Long Neck Village is very commercialized. The tribes people are still foreigners in Thailand. Confined to the hills. No way of finding other employments. 
Finding food was easy, all it took was us to do a bit of homework looking for the right restaurants and cafes. And there were so many of them. We enjoyed particularly Keoy Teow Phat (Thai fried rice noodles) and mango rice pudding. There was a cafe right next door to our hotel selling ice cream and mango delights. We also went to a seafood restaurant two nights out of three we were there. The seafoods were sourced and flown in from Haatyai. We had the most beautiful steamed fish (Thai style of course), crabs, tiger prawns, oysters, a kind of lala or clams, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruits. All for not more than A$50 a meal.
One Official Photographer for the tour and one not so official photographer .....
Mini Pumpkins
Met Kee Mun's Thai friend, Khun Wat, and visited his home. He also took us to two of the Harley Davidson outlets run by his friends. He was a good man and an artist. He draws painting of deities, monks and religious scenes for Buddha temples. He is obviously a Harley enthusiast. Got a lovely son and wife.
Clowning around on stage with Wat
Harley enthusiast
Having a nice Thai lunch by a lake with Wat
Kee Mun .... stop worrying so much!
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