Dec. 9th - Tha Ton to Chiang Rai (with a little boat help)
A relaxing cruise
** I took yesterday's page down as for some unknown reason, only the captions are showing on my pictures, not the pictures themselves. I have no idea why they aren't viewable as they all loaded just fine when I'm in edit mode. Will make visible again once the problem is solved. I written in for help unless someone has any ideas.....
Today's adventure....
I had read about a boat from Tha Ton to Chiang Rai in other cycling blogs. What I did not know was that because of Covid, the public boat stopped running. However, never fear, I can charter a boat if I want to pay the full price. The owners of the homestay made some calls, but said no other passengers had scheduled yet. We went to a hotel across from the boat dock this morning and I was informed I could share a boat with another lady. I was told last night, it would cost me $2200b by myself. This morning, I am told the other lady will bay $1000b, and I will pay 1400b because of my bike. The math doesn't really add up and I was annoyed. I felt slightly better when I saw she was a Thai lady and since my dollar goes further, I let it slide.
OMG, I am so sad for these elephants. I am not a huge animal activist by any means, but I did not like this place. Elephants shackled with chains and riding platforms on all of them. She looks sad too.
I've arrived. Now to find a hotel. All the ones I had picked out are sold out. (I'm a day early and after yesterday's chaos, I didn't bother looking last night.)
I picked out Jansupar Court hotel. It has great reviews. I did have to lock my bike down in the carport, which makes me nervous. The owners were really nice and fluent in English. I ended up booking a second day just to keep my life easy.
I did walk into town and wandered down through a market. Again, wall to wall people and it was early.
