Days 15-16 Chiang Mai

These two days are spent tour, eating, shopping and chillaxing in and around the city.

The temple Wat Wa Ket around the corner from 137 Pillars House has a rather strange little museum.

 The explanation for these swords reads "The magic sword -- it has a recite and incantation.over the sword. It's a tool for subdue the devil, solves the mystery. A sword was written in ancient characters. The owners must have high mental power, and were practiced or learned about the magic from the expert."

Here we relax after a very satisfying foot-rub. The dancing girls behind us convey something of the mood. And no, that is not our koala bear. But he appears to have had a very satisfying paw-rub.

We journeyed to the Umbrella Making Village outside of Chiang Mai. To the left, the frame, to the right, the finished product.

On a tuk-tuk tour of the Old City, we stopped in at this lovely old wat.

And in the evenings we took a tuk-tuk home from dinner.

What Kathy saw

What I saw

We then said goodbye to Chiang Mai, and flew to Bangkok for a night at the Souvarnaphoumi airport Sofitel, before flying early the next morning to Tokyo (5hrs), and on to Honolulu (7 hours). We arrived in Honolulu at 7:30 AM on the same morning that we had departed Bangkok at 8:15 AM (go figure). The last leg was a 1 hour flight from Honolulu to Kauai, where we rented a car and drive to the Lodge at Kukui'ula.

All of this airport and airplane time happened at the height (or what we hoped was the height) of the new corona virus scare. On Day 1 of RTW2, the total confirmed cases was 37,000, and the death toll was 813.  On day 17 when we arrived in Honolulu, total cases were 81,000 with 2,763 deaths. 

So we took precautions...

 

...so as to avoid...