Day 21 (continued)

The hotel in Chiang Mai -- the Chiang Mai Plaza, was really nice, very posh and Barb and I sat in the lobby/bar, listening to a pretty good lounge lizare act (Barb even thought it was a record!), drinking and writing in our journals.

Two notes on things I noticed in Bangkok (which also held true for the rest of Thailand). First, all the doorways were raised. At Jim Thompson's House they explained that the raised doorways were to keep out evil spirits. Also, there were little shrines everywhere, usually white with red (a sacred color) smeared all over and flower garlands hanging on it. Interesting.

written by

shoshtrvls on August 21, 1987 from Chiang Mai, Thailand

from the travel blog: Around the World (1987)

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