Thailand

Wow!  What a vacation!  It exceeded all my expectations!  Thank you Maverik! After about 25 hours worth of sitting in airports and in airplanes we made it to Chiang Mai Thailand at 11pm.  Korean Air is amazing by the way! 

Siripanna Villa Resort and Spa

March 4 

Chiang Mai City tour and Tiger Kingdom

Chiang Mia Temple

Rickshaw ride

Oldest Temple in Chiang Mia

Snake/Dragon guarding the temples

Getting friendly with tigers!

I was terrified!

*We had dinner at a restaurant named Dash! where I had the best grilled cheese sandwich I've ever had!

March 5

Elephant Training Center and Bamboo Rafting

Lunch!

Elephants are surprisingly prickly!

Elephant Show

Playing Soccer! 

Elephants painting!  Pretty awesome!

Cute little elephant!

Bamboo raft ride

With cute parasales :)

So peaceful and HOT!

Our elephant Chub Chubs!

March 6

Bangkok

The Shangri La Bangkok Hotel

View from our hotel window 

March 7

Bangkok City Tour

Grand Palace in Bangkok

 

Muay Thai (Thai Kick Boxing)

Long Tailed boats.

Bear-y good rice ;)

Night Cruise

Greg's little friend

March 8

Floating Market, Working Thai house

Thai local market.  It was neat to see but holding my breath for 15 minutes wasn't fun.  Very interesting smells!  This particular market was set up on train tracks, when the sellers heard the trains horn and the tracks started vibrating, it was time to MOVE!

The Thai culture is very interesting with all the different levels and  spiritual aspects in it 

Each Thai house has their own Shrine

We took a "James Bond" boat to the floating market, this city has over 200 water canals  that it's built on

 

Our last night in Bangkok Greg had a fish pedicure.  I couldn't bring myself to do it!

March 9

Travel to Phuket

Le Meridian Phuket Beach Resort

March 10

Phang Nga Bay and Sea Canoe

James Bond Island 

Where the Man with the Golden Gun was filmed

Sea Caves here we come!

 

Going into the caves

We had to lay down while our guide made our way through the caves

On the opposite side of the caves!

 

Our private beach and lunch waiting for us! 

Lunch is served!

Our group of buddies!

Hard Rock for dinner!  Absolutely!

March 11
Day at the pool and Farewell dinner

This baby elephant came to our hotel with his trainer everyday!

Sweet little guy!

Maverik group activity

Making James bond theme sand castles

Maverik Farewell Dinner

How cool is this?!

Making a wish and sending off floating lanterns 

Watching our lantern float away

March 12

Zipline and Home!

Our flight left at 9pm so instead of wasting our whole day we decided to go Ziplining!  I'm so glad we did!  It was so much fun!

Our guides were awesome!  Joking around and singing!  One of them even took pictures with my camera the whole time!  I lost my sandal on the last zipline!  Thankfully we found it!  I guess that's what I get for going in flip flops! :)