In Chiang Mai with Ky Mook and Poppy

After the youth conferences, (If you have not read about these...the previous 6 posts discuss them...read from the bottom to the top =) )Sarah "Ky Mook" and I were able to stay in Chaing Mai and extra night with our friend Poppy. She took us around for two days. It was a fun vacation. She picked us up in a Sung-Taow (very popular form of transportation here). Then she took us to Tiger Kingdom where we chose to see the baby tigers and watched others go inside the cages with the big tigers (although if you get the chance to go ever...choose the big tigers...That would have been awesome!). Then we went to the Elephant Camp where we fed the elephants and watched their shows ( I posted a couple videos at the bottom of this post so that you can enjoy too!). The shows consisted of Circus stuff, an elephant giving a man a massage, elephants playing soccer, elephants playing darts and elephants painting pictures. Then we went to a monkey show and the night market in the evening. The following day, we went to the Chiang Mai Zoo. This zoo was not an ordinary zoo. IT felt like it should have been the Garden of Eden (see pics). I was most thrilled to see the Giant Panda. Giant Pandas have been my all time favorite animal since the 3rd Grade. And this was the first time I was going to see one in "real" life. So, we spent lots of time at the Panda Exhibit where there was a 15 month baby panda and it's mother and father. After the zoo, we met up with our friend P'Pat and went to a Mexican Restaurant (my favorite food...that I never get to have!) before Ky Mook and I had to head back home to Bangkok. (If you have facebook...I posted an entire album...because of Poppy's request..so you can see more pics there if you would like). It was an adventure! =)