Welcome to the New Year

We found out that New Years is not such a big deal in Mae Sot but found the most foreigner-friendly pub and forced ourselves to stay up. The Thai cover band was awesome and the main singer was unlike any other Thai singer that we have encountered. He had a deep scrachy Tom Waits type voice and it was awesome. From 'Puff the Magic Dragon' to 'Hotel California' the covers were the best renditions that I had ever heard. I asked if he had a CD but blushed and said 'maybe in a few years'. All in all it was a good time even with the single firework that went off marking midnight. How was your New Years? Or do you remember?

Awesome Thai band


This is Black-Black, we found him in a candy box



Happy New Year!


our waitress was festive



Yesterday we got brave and rented a (yes one) motorbike to save some bhat. It was actually quite fine, hey if the Thais can so can we? I think that just not for long distances though. We went to see a stupa that is perched on top of a large rock that looks like a boulder. It was cool but the climb up the never-ending flight of stairs in the heat was brutal.


Stupa


View from the top


Buddha

Steep never-ending steps

There was also a very small cave where I took this cool picture.


For dinner Dan spoiled me and we went to this really cool romantic place. It was designed by a botanist and had all sorts of plants and trees. The restaurant is spread out by sort of man-made islands separated by streams that flow to a small man-made lake. Is is created so that it feels and looks natural, and the food was sooooooo delicious. The river fish and deep fried ice cream were the tastyist.

Restaurant

So beautiful








Waterfall in the restaurant!

I took some pretty cool macro shots:


This is my favorite


Also good


Even better

And so today we took a minibus to Sukhothai and tomorrow we will explore its ruins and right now we are going for dinner.