So songkran is the thai new year. Despite what my drunken friend alex says in the video, traditionally it's a time when thais go back to there hometowns and spend time with their families and it's also a time when you pour water over the shoulders of your friends and family. This holiday has evolved into quite the event, probably mostly due to drunken rambunctious tourists. If you ever visit thailand or laos in mid april, do not expect to stay dry. People with Ice cold buckets of water and children with super soaker lurk on every street. I had so much fun the first two days but I definetely was done by the third. I went to chiang mai, a popular destination for songkran. It's one of the bigger cities in Thailand but does not compare to Bangkok in the slightest. Regardless of the unrelenting festivities I found that the people of the north were generally like the south of the US in the sense that you had true hospitality. People were just generally nicer and more willing to due things for you. Similarly to the US south they talked slower and in a different dialect. In a split decision I also went bungee jumping which is definitely something I wanted to check off my bucket list and I'm so glad I did it.
After a few days in chiang mai me and my friend pako went to chiang rai, a nieghboring city, almost as far north as you can get. We really wanted to see Phu Chi Fa but it would have been a hassle to get out to and we were told that the pictures are nothing like what we would see because it was the burning season in laos which would really obstruct our view. Instead we visited the white temple, a must see if you are around the north. It was absolutely beautiful. It had some of the most detailed architecture I had ever seen. Before heading back to bangkok, me and pako decide to adventure a little and I had some of my first outdoor rock climbing. We also did a little caving a ziplinning.
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