For Songkran we bought super cheap tickets on Air Asia to head up to the small city of Chiang Mai in northwestern Thailand. I thought celebrating in Bangkok might be too crazy and Chiang Mai is known its longer, more laid back festival. The whole country celebrates for about 5 days full of water fights during the hottest summer month.

It was my first time in Chiang Mai, a city I hope to move to some day (it is much more my style, I am sick of the big city) and I really loved it there! It is the 6th biggest city in Thailand, a nice change from Nonthaburi, the second biggest city and where I currently live. I think it is AMAZING that Bangkok has 5 million people as the biggest city in the country and then my area, right outside the city, has only 260,000 people, yet is still the second biggest.



We rented a motorbike one day and drove all over the city as well as up to Doi Sutep, a beautiful temple at the top of the mountain with a great view of the city.





We also splurged for Eric's birthday and went zip lining with Flight of the Gibbon.  It was a bit expensive (3000 baht ~ 100 USD) but totally worth it! I got to fly through the trees and zip along the longest zip line in Thailand, 300 meters long! It was something I had been talking about for a long time and is an experience I will never forget (even if it was a little like South Park's timely episode "I should have never gone zip lining" haha!)