Chiang Rai - Sick Day and Some Wats

Woke up not feeling so great. Still/again. Mary continues to suffer from a head cold, and Josh is finding his appetite lacking. After finding that we still felt lousy after breakfast, we went back to the hotel for a rest day. There was much reading, attempting to nap, and figuring out how to browse the eBay mobile site from the Kindles (Kindle + eBay could be a dangerous combination).

In the evening we went out walking and discovered yet another cool wat that wasn't in Lonely Planet. Seriously guys, get with the program. I liked the red background, the white stupa, the zodiac signs under the windows, and the "street signs" with sayings on them. It looks like there was some construction or restoration going on inside.

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Then we walked down to the river and found a bridge under construction, but nothing like a nice waterfront park or anything. Unless you like seeing folks living in tents--nice tents from an outdoor store, I think they were for the construction workers--and untamed jungle.

On the way back we stopped at one of the big famous wats, which had a small (around 5 monks and 3 women) service going on with everyone singing and stuff. Which was really beautiful, except I wanted to walk around and look closely at the exceptional murals on the walls. Somehow, that didn't seem appropriate. Maybe we will drop by another day.

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On the way back from there, we found ourselves in the Market (the regular Market, not the Night Market), which had the regular array of raw food materials we are used to, plus a nice array of street food. So we got dinner... and breakfast.

We also passed by the clock tower, which was nicely lit up, as you can see.

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