We slept in! Our guide will be picking us up at 1:00 p.m. to take us on the Chiangmai old city wot tour. Back to a life of leisure: time for a relaxed breakfast, time to blog, to swim, to do school work. Even time to pick up our laundry! Eventually 1:00 arrived and we were off with our guide, Kophi to visit the oldest temple in Thailand (as Chiangmai is the oldest city, about 700 years in the kingdoms of Thailand. Chiangmai was the Northern Capital of the Lanna Kingdom. The temple that we visited a couple of days ago at the top of the mountain is connected to the temples at the bottom both by lore and roads. We visited the Central Temple, the Royal Temple and the oldest temples. Kophi filled us in the story of Buddhism and of the monks that pray and study at them. He was a former monk, now turned tour guide (he is 29 years old)!. Fascinating. We also participated in a new monk’s program called, appropriately enough, Chat with a Monk. This allows foreigners (and I suppose some locals) time to learn about monks and listen to the teachings and for the monks in return to practice their English. We chatted with monks who were 9 years and 3 years practicing.
In the evening, we returnd to the night market for dinner. Check out the baby's play pen!
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