Warren Peace: Thailand trip - Chang Mai and Puket

We were in Asia from the 15 of Sept 2010 to Oct 16. To save repeating myself all of Asia was fantastic. We spent 6 days in Hong Kong, then on to Bejing, - floating markets, budda's, then on too Xian with all of the terra cotta warriers, several large buildings keep the weather off of the clay soldiers. Vast areas in Xian need to have more excavating done. Thousands of years of history. From Xian we went to Shanghai, with only 3 days there we would go back again. From there we flew back to Hong Kong and separated from the 21 people in our group and headed off to Thailand.
Bankok was our first stop, looked at lots of Budda's and temples, then flew into Chang Mai, did a tour of the elephants and tigers, orchids out in the country side. From there to Puket and after a month just sat and relaxed.

Buildings in Hong Kong

Hong Kong skyline

living scaffold - bamboo

jet boat to island of Macaw to do a little gambling

imperial palace

fantastic jade carvings

Ready for a little walk on the great wall

Terra Cotta warriers in Xian. Thousands of clay statues.

15 course dumpling meal

Gardens in the middle of the city

unique buildings in Shanghai

Shanghai skyline

snake handlers left me with Fred

water lily

Today we went through 2 villages, both small plots of land,refuges from Burma which is only a few miles away.

This lady is from the village

of the longneck tribe. We toured the village, looked in the huts and bought some crafts from them.

White palace 3 hours north of Chang Mai. This is all done with donations, no government help. Long process to build, they will be many years but very beautiful

Riding the elehants on a safari outside of Chang Mai.

We are about 8 to 10 feet off of the ground. Increadibily intelligent animals.

They wanted 350 boht to take pictures of tigers, so we said okay. We go down by the tiger pens give him our ticket and he opens up the cage and says come on in!!!!

Wow!!

These tigers are almost full grown and are 18 months old