{"id":103,"date":"2008-04-08T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T03:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/chiang-mai\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:47:47","slug":"chiang-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/chiang-mai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiang Mai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much sleep on the bus, as it was a bumpy ride, and not very roomy.  A little tired, we were dropped off outside the city and transferred to songthaews, and taken closer to the city centre.  Basically, they drop you off at a guesthouse where they try and get you to stay, and use their tours.  A bit of a hindrance, but I imagine it works sometimes.  I checked the map to see where I was, and used my handy compass to figure out where west was, and headed west and north till I reached my guesthouse.  Easier to find than I thought it might be with my small hand drawn map on a post-it note.<\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3155\/2418060858_d588aa72e3.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG 5887\" \/>\n<p>Had a walk around to look into rock climbing and trekking and that sort of thing.  A little more expensive than I&#8217;d like to pay, but I&#8217;m keeping my options open.   Lack of sleep, plus the heat was making me tired, so I headed to the guesthouse and had a long nap followed by a shower.<\/p>\n<p>Checked out some bookstores and killed some time by sipping on a banana shake before my yoga class at 5pm.   The fact that I haven&#8217;t been to yoga in a few weeks was abundantly clear.  I managed okay, but it was a pretty advanced class to begin with.\u00c2\u00a0 The heat didn&#8217;t help much either.<\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2366\/2417226549_c24ded364b.jpg\" class=\"flickrimg\" alt=\"IMG 5879\" \/>\n<p>Had another much needed shower after yoga, then went and grabbed some food at the bar down the street.  I hopped on the internet a little later, and ran into Pennie and Wiki who were checking into their room. They seem to be following me, which makes for some good company, so I shan&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much sleep on the bus, as it was a bumpy ride, and not very roomy. A little tired, we were dropped off outside the city and transferred to songthaews, and taken closer to the city centre. Basically, they drop you off at a guesthouse where they try and get you to stay, and use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}