My 26 Hours in Chang Mai Part 2: Night Out on the Town

Chang Mai is sick. I will definitely be back. Delicious food, interesting scents, amazing sites, and suspicious lady boys. 26 hours was not enough time in Chang Mai.

At the Burmese Restaurant (sorry it's blurry)

Our group from the day trek met up again at a delicious Burmese restaurant (which was rightfully called 'Burmese Restaurant'). The food was tasty and spicy and I loved it. Afterwards we hit up the corner 7-Eleven to pick up some beer as we moseyed around Chiang Mai. We eventually stopped at a random bar in the corner. The random bar was literally an open space in the corner of a building. It had a pool table and a nice selection of cassette tapes where we can pick our own songs to play. We stayed there for a bit, hanging out and playing pool, and making our own soundtrack for the night with cassette tapes. If my memory serves me right, Elton John may or may not have been serenading us for some time.

Party at the 7-eleven

After the random corner bar we went to some club that a Thai man recommended to one of our friends, so we had our tuk tuk drivers race to the next place. My tuk tuk won. The club was weird. It was all foreign men and Thai women who approached them as they entered. It may or may not have been a club for Thai prostitutes to hang out, but regardless it was really weird and creepy. We stayed there for one beer then headed over to the reggae bar area. We stayed at these two bars/clubs that were right across the road from each other and they were much more fun. Great music and a good time dancing. Later in the night (about 1:00 am) I left my group and went to another bar with my new three friends from Holland. We went to a popular bar called Spice Club. It stays open really late and essentially it's a place for Thai women to go to meet foreign men and a place for foreign men to go to meet Thai women. It was incredibly creepy, yet I was incredibly entertained. Luckily, I had my nice Dutch escorts keeping me safe from creepy foreign men who thought I was a Thai woman.

Uh-oh. Tequila time.

I finally headed home at about 7:00 am. Walking through the streets of Chang Mai back to my hostel, watching monks walk through the streets, and the people of Chang Mai preparing for the day was a really cool thing to see. I finally found my hostel, and the guys from the day trek who I was with last night were still up drinking, and they just got home as well. We all hung out for a bit until it was time pack up and prepare for my 8 hour drive then 2 day boat ride to Laos that left at 10:00 am. This was the third night of 2012, and of those three nights, this was my second all nighter. I think that my trip was off to a memorable start, and 2012 was definitely starting off with bang.

Look out Laos...