Thursday 26th October
Another taxi ride... another flight, this time to Chiang Mai our base for 4 days of the World Interhash. Bankok Airways certainly try to please and they were very good with Tracy whisking her and us around quickly. Tim even managed to find time to buy a camera in the airport.
Our time was short when we arrived so we checked into our (highly recommended!) guest house (the Minicost), changed into red dresses and headed out to the center of old town for that hash ritual, the charity "Red Dress Run".
This consisted of somewhat more than 2000 people running around the city in Red Dresses, winding through the streets of the narrow old city for several miles and ending at a big park for a party. Tracy did a pretty good job keeping up with the crowd (there may have been running at the front but there was only walking (or jumping on the local transportation for those tired of walking!) where we were. Judging by the amusement the spectacle provided for the staff of our guest house as the "run" passed their door the whole city must think the foreigners are nuts.
The party in the park was fun with plenty of beer and lots of good local snack food if you could put up with the queue (at least until supply caught up with demand right before things began to run out). As with our entire stay the evenings proved to be balmy and entirely bug free. Once the party was done soon after nightfall we headed home to change, shower and unpack before finding a good local restaurant nearby.
Our time was short when we arrived so we checked into our (highly recommended!) guest house (the Minicost), changed into red dresses and headed out to the center of old town for that hash ritual, the charity "Red Dress Run".
This consisted of somewhat more than 2000 people running around the city in Red Dresses, winding through the streets of the narrow old city for several miles and ending at a big park for a party. Tracy did a pretty good job keeping up with the crowd (there may have been running at the front but there was only walking (or jumping on the local transportation for those tired of walking!) where we were. Judging by the amusement the spectacle provided for the staff of our guest house as the "run" passed their door the whole city must think the foreigners are nuts.
The party in the park was fun with plenty of beer and lots of good local snack food if you could put up with the queue (at least until supply caught up with demand right before things began to run out). As with our entire stay the evenings proved to be balmy and entirely bug free. Once the party was done soon after nightfall we headed home to change, shower and unpack before finding a good local restaurant nearby.
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