Scenery and houses in and around Chiang Mai

Thailand - as I see it.

As we drove to Chaing Dao, we passed many interesting sights.  From my son's house, which is brand new and very well built, to older houses which need power washing and painting.  The Wats, Buddhist temples, for the most part have a lot of walls that need painting.  However, on the inside of the courtyard, the buildings are all nicely painted, and have gold on the roofs and spires.  The houses, on the other hand, in the Hills are very sparse, have little to no windows, and some don't even have doors.

The scenery in the city consists of many buildings, high and short, malls with many stores and individual homes.  The hotels tend to be very well taken care of and have beautiful statues, flowers and decorations.  There are    markets that dot  the landscape all over the cities as well as the countryside. In the center of Chiang Mai is also the Night Bazaar with all the stalls full of interesting items to buy.  There is an old wall around the interior of the city and a moat with sprinklers to clean it as well.  The King's picture is prominently posted all over as well as on bridges and over the street walkways.  We saw trucks full of garlic and live cows piled on top of each other. We also saw trucks full of workers with hats, gloves and heavy coats.

A modern mall all decorated

An elaborate wat with a lot of gold

A Lisu Hill Tribe House

A scene of plants, trees and houses dotted up the hill

Rob Cutler's new house

A truck full of cows on top of each other

 Rob Cutler and his Mother, Marcia Weis on his motorbike

An ox cart ride for Marcia and William Weis

A house on stilts built in the woods

One of many red taxi cabs that continually cruises the streets

A lady carrying her baskets and brooms to sell

A Field with man working

One of many billboards of the King

Marcia and William Weis on a river raft

As we leave the city, we see many pictures and billboards of the King.  There are spirit houses and wats every few miles.  There are fields of corn, garlic, rice, papayas and bananas as well as many unusual fruits and vegetables that  I have never seen.  People are walking on the roads with heavy bags of grain, fishing poles made out of  a branch of a tree. We have seen tuk tuks, motorcycles, cars, red taxis, double decker busses, bicycles with sidecars, river rafts and trucks.