Cat in a funky leopard print jacket

There are many dogs in jackets here in Chiang Mai but this is the first cat we've seen ... good taste too!

We spent the morning doing a bit of research and talking to a travel agent lady who was really helpful.  We decide to take the difficult option and travel overland to Myanmar next.  If you fly you can get your visa electronically but, as yet, you can't do this for land crossings and we would have to go back to Bangkok to get our visas so, rather than doing that, we pay a bit extra and get an agent to do it which will take a few days.  Fingers crossed it all works out. The plan is to pick up the visas on the morning of the 16th, take a bus to Mae Sot in the afternoon, stay there overnight, cross the border to Myawaddy in Myanmar the next morning and hopefully make our way to Yangon.  It'll be tiring but we're looking forward to it.

On arrival back at our hotel around lunchtime, we are told by a girl working there that the owner will no longer let us have the room at the agreed rate and wants 100 Baht more per night.  We say no, so have to find another hotel.  Luckily our leg work the other day paid off and we find a nice room just around the corner for less money.

We now have a couple more days in Chiang Mai so decide to organise ourselves for the next leg of the trip.  We begin by buying a skipping rope (as we are not doing much exercise), exchange some secondhand books and then Andy has a head and hand massage and Freddie a pedicure before dinner.  We find a place that does cheap mojitos so stop in for a few on our way home.  If you take a look at tomorrow's entry then the mojitos were perhaps not the best idea!