Note: I have a backlog of pictures to upload, but the internet is just too slow to get them all up.
Pennie and Wiki are gone, so I’m on my own once again. Got some breakfast, and relaxed during the morning, then headed to Julie’s Guesthouse to meet up with Good and some people from the tour. I was strapped with my new gun, and had some fun shooting people, and getting very soaked myself. My watergun is pretty useless against a bucket of water, sadly.
Met up with Shane, Shawn, Good, Lucy, Amy, Freyja and Volker, as well as one of Good’s friends, Tong. Chiang Mai’s old town centre is surrounded by a moat, so we headed there. Trucks filled with garbage pails of water circle the moat, soaking people who line up along the moat, and get their firepower from the moat itself. It was chaos on a very wet scale.
The evil ones use ice water, which is akin to chemical warfare, if you ask me. Otherwise it wasn’t so bad (although the water is very dirty, and I imagine I’ve caught a disease or two). After a couple of hours of walking through snarled traffic, getting soaking wet, we got some food. Good bought us some bugs, and bamboo worms, which were okay. Bamboo worms were pretty tasteless, and I’m not sure I’d eat the beetles again, but it was worth trying once.
We wandered around a bit more after that, but it was getting a little tedious, so we headed to a bar and hung out there for a bit. I dismissed myself after a while and headed back to the guesthouse to read and relax. In the morning I’m hoping to get up early and grab a bus north to Chiang Rai.