The first stop was an old Christian cemetary. Westerners first came over in the 1850's as Christian missionaries. They set up a number of Christian schools that still exist today (even though 95% of the country is Buddhist).
Some of my TEFL classmates...
Next we went to a Thai Wat (Buddhist temple) near the river.
Near the back of the Wat, there were buckets of animals on the ground, including fish, turtles, birds, frogs, and eels. For a fee, you could 'set them free.' Kind of weird since they capture these animals just to set them free... The parents of this little boy in the picture just bought him a cage of birds to set free. A couple of my classmates also set free birds and turtles.
One of these turtles got eaten by a catfish almost immediately after it was released in the river :(
After a cheap Thai lunch, we went to the Chiang Mai History Musuem. It was raining so I couldn't snap a good photo of the building.
Our last stop was the Tribal Museum which showcases Thailand's hill tribes that number around 500,000 people.
The Tribal Museum is actually located on a military base. This outer area of the lake is where all the restaurants/bars are for the soldiers. The museum is on a tiny peninsula that reaches the center of the lake.
Hope that wasn't too boring! We promise we'll post some cool party photos soon.
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