{"id":2411,"date":"2019-06-01T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2019-06-01T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T03:24:32","slug":"chiang-mai-fish-spa-exploring-old-city-last-day-traveling-with-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"Chiang Mai–Fish Spa, Exploring Old City, Last Day Traveling with Alexander."},"content":{"rendered":"

April 21st 2019<\/p>\n

It’s been so wonderful having my son travelling with us for the past 2 1\/2 weeks, but all great things must come to an end…and today was his final day. Tomorrow Alexander returns to his job as Senior Design\/Robotic Engineer for Western Digital in Bangkok. So…Today’s activities were his choice!<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening after we returned from the incredible Elephant Nature Park experience, we headed into the Old City for dinner and to see the activity at night. There is definitely a different ‘feel’ and atmosphere during the evenings in the city center.<\/p>\n

We took a tuk tuk home although they are rather tight for more than 2 passengers. Several electric tuk tuks have been sighted lately. This is a very positive environmental change, and hopefully this trend will continue which should assist in reducing the extreme air pollution ratings presently found in Chiang Mai.<\/p>\n

Dealing with 40 + temperatures and over 85 % humidity each day has been really challenging for us. We are drinking huge quantities of water and trying to stay near air conditioning during the early afternoon extreme heats! <\/p>\n

We started with breakfast at our favorite location. Pun Pun vegetarian restaurant within the grounds of the neighboring Wat Suan Dok. It takes us about 2 minutes to walk to this peaceful restaurant and the food is always fresh and lovely.<\/p>\n

After breakfast we ventured back past the surrounding moats and walls into the old city to locate a Fish Spa. There are several to choose from. We checked Trip Adviser ratings and went to one that seemed to meet our needs. We had all had a Fish Spa experience last trip 4 years ago, but this one turned out to be quite different for me!<\/p>\n

Instead of one large circular pond with tiny fish living within the pond set on eating the dead skin off your feet and legs, this location had 2 long rectangular tanks with much larger fish inside!<\/p>\n

Mark and Alexander immediately headed for the tank with the larger fish. I personally was not thrilled with little barracuda looking fish feasting off my skin!~\u00a0<\/p>\n

I decided to try the other tank opposite my men. The fish were smaller and I thought probably not as aggressive.<\/p>\n

Hesitantly I placed my feet in the tank. Thankfully none seemed interested in my feet although they were swarming around the guys–especially Alexander! I announced… “Well….Guess my feet are clean and the fish aren’t interested, so I’m exiting this experience.” When suddenly one nibbled on me! I screamed and pulled my feet out of the water! This was one experience I definitely was going to pass on today!<\/p>\n

So…While the guys had fish nibbling off their dead skin, I sat in the hot sun and took photos of them. They were very enraptured by the experience and stated afterwards their feet and calves felt baby soft. Mine….Not so much!<\/p>\n

After living in Thailand for nearly 5 1\/2 years sometimes Alexander craves alternate types of food. So our next stop was pizza Thai style!<\/p>\n

The pizza crust was super skinny and the toppings were minimal … but I loved the photographs on the wall! Wow! Elvis looks so young!<\/p>\n

Then it was time to leave the old city section as Alexander had to fly back to Bangkok. \ud83d\ude22. <\/p>\n

But Mark and I had another 3 1\/2 weeks of adventures left. In 2 days we fly to Hanoi, Vietnam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 21st 2019 It’s been so wonderful having my son travelling with us for the past 2 1\/2 weeks, but all great things must come to an end…and today was his final day. Tomorrow Alexander returns to his job as Senior Design\/Robotic Engineer for Western Digital in Bangkok. So…Today’s activities were his choice! Yesterday evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,138,161,272,275],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asia","tag-chiang-mai","tag-fish-spa","tag-thailand","tag-travel","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandysglobaleyes.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}