I'm back in Chiang Mai and it rained last night. I've spent about 3 weeks in this area and that was the first rain i've seen. In order to stay in Thailand for long enough this time, I had to go to the Thai embassy in Vientiane. I thouroughl botched the whole process. First I got to Vientiane on saturday evening, and wanted to go to the embassy the next morning before someone told me it would be closed on Sunday, of course. Then I went to the embassy on sunday, but got lost on the way there and then after waiting to hand in my documents for 2 hours I had forgotten something and time was up. So I finally managed to hand in my application on tuesday morning and picked it up on wednesday afternoon. I teamed up with a German guy for going to Chiang Mai. We got a tuk tuk then a bus, then another bus and then another bus. The first two buses were extremely slow, which bothered my German travel companion immensely, but I like taking local buses and watching people hop in and out as part of their daily lives. A young German couple was travelling with a nursing baby, which deeply impressed me. The journey back to Chiang Mai took about 14 hours and the baby was relatively quiet for the whole trip, wow.
Now I'm in Chiang Mai and Clare has arrived to hang out and do some climbing. Yesterday we got our first day in at Crazy Horse Buttress. It is a great climbing area. Lots of small sectors with well marked paths and a huge initiative to keep the area clean. We climbed 7 routes, including a 6a chimney ( i love chimneys so I found it to be the easiest climb of the day). I onsighted a 6b+ as well, which I was very happy about, it being my first day climbing in a while. Unfortunately I got a heat stroke and was feeling weak and awful in the evening. I slept forever and today I feel recovered, but we didn't climb today. We hope to get an early start tomorrow and get some multipitch climbing in. On another note I went to the market today and got a bamboo sticky rice steamer and made myself some authentic thai sticky rice.
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