Chiang Mai Temples

After landing in Chiang Mai that afternoon, we immediately went on a 'free' temple tour. The city and traffic is much calmer. We had a driver and guide. They both were very helpful. The tour guide was very good with E. I think there might be a tour guide class she took in college that deals with how to work with kids but more likely she was being genuinely kind. It was impossible to understand most of what she she though. Wash up was worship but then she talked about the washing the temple and that was something else. She did give us lots of useful dates bout the temples and artistic information about the different eras of temple design. These are some of the oldest temples (700 years) and some of the relics were up to 2000 years old. E ran around but was generally a super trooper.