Chiang May day 2 - Doi Suthep

We didnt like it in Ben there was only one window, the fan was noisy and we where some 5 minutes walk from the center, so we wanted to move to another guesthouse.
We woke up early, arranged the bags for a day trip, paid for the room, left a big bag for keeping at Ben (it's OK to do that in guesthouses), took our dirty clothes to a laundry and where on our way to the Doi Suthep national park.
But first things first - we went to see the travel agent (we only had her office telephone, not a mobile). So she wasnt there at 8. or at 9. actually she came to work only in 10. Meanwhile, we where spending time in the local market. Now we got really amazed about the atmosphere, the variety of goods, the prices. It is the most quiet market in the world. Imagine to yourself a normal Israeli market, but without the shouts, Nobody was attacking us to sell something, everyone where very nice. I even ordered a pair of spare glasses in an optic shop. We had a great european breakfast (the exotic Thai food is really getting on our nerve..)

When we finally got to the travel agent, she told us she managed to do us visas without the photos - she copied the ones in our passports, so finally we gone to the national park. We gone there by a taxi called Sang-theo. First we saw a beautiful wat with a great view of chiang May, and then we gone to he national park itself, where we were told that the park is closed, and we cannot go anywhere. Now the national park is a huge thing, so we didnt intend to start a many days trek, but only to spend some hours in the beautifull nature (finally!). We did our first (for me and Olga) hike in Thailand, for about 2 or three hours in the forest, and it was really beautiful, although (and maybe because of) it was raining like hell and we where in the funny rain coats in the jungle.
After that we came back to the wat, tried to get a taxi out for a hour or so (the bastards are much more willing to take you out of town rather than back in). In the next day we wanted to go to a more distant national park, so we gone directly to the laundry before it closes, and from there - to a bus station, the buses where supposed to leave from.