{"id":915,"date":"2017-07-15T04:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2017-07-15T06:05:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:05:34","slug":"hello-from-chiang-mai-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Chiang Mai, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHello from Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSaturday Evening  – July 15, 2017   (Sixth  post of this travelogue)<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tToday was our travel day from Phuket to Chiang Mai.  Our flight was a bit less than 2 hours.  It is amazing how the airlines over here treat you like humans.  They even feed you on the plane!<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWe are staying at the DusitD2 Hotel (link to Google Map hotel location)<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t{google_map}18.786334 98.999823{\/google_map}<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is a very nice hotel, but not quite the same level as our last two.  I have included some pictures of our room.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Chiang<\/a> \"Chiang<\/a> \"Chiang<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the last post, I forgot to include a picture of our Thai Cooking Class instructor with her star students {grin}.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"IMG_2186\"<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOur Thursday excursion was a lot of fun.  Our first stop was a cashew processing plant.  We really did not get to see all that much, but we did see two workers hand shelling the nuts.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Hand<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t Next we stopped at a very large Buddhist compound that had several magnificent temples<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t

\"Our

Our guide at the Buddhist compound<\/p><\/div>\"Main<\/a>\"Another<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOur next stop was an elephant reserve where we got to ride the elephants.  We are glad that we had the experience, but the gait of the elephant is such that the ride was quite rough.  The trek was perhaps a half mile through some neat scenery.  However, at the end of the ride we were ready to get back on the ground.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\"Our

Selfie on an elephant<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\tOur last stop was a farm.  All of the exhibitions were examples of how farming was done many years ago.  We got to see them grind and sort rice, observe a rice paddy watch them process latex rubber from the trees and ride in an water buffalo cart.  <\/span><\/span>

\"Monsoon

Monsoon rain<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

\"grinding

Rice paddy<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\t\"Farm<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHaving spent most of my life in the rubber industry made latex exhibition part of the tour even more interesting.  Latex or “natural” rubber derived from trees has some great properties.  However, it does not have good mechanical properties that would make it useful for belts and hoses, so I got to learn quite a bit between the demonstration and my research (link to information)<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\"Collecting

Collecting the latex rubber<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Processing

Processing the latex rubber<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\tAs soon as we arrived at the farm we experience a monsoon rain as you saw in the previous photos.  <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tYesterday we were scheduled to take a heritage trip and do some shopping.  Part of the trip was a duplicate of Thursday’s trip so we decided to chill out at the resort.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd now for our discussion of the weather here:<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"A<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tActually up until the last few days the weather has not been all that bad.  Yes it is hot and humid, but the grandeur of the trip makes that bearable.  Many days had light rain but it stopped fairly quickly.  Not the case with the monsoon rains the last few days.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThat is all for this trip.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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