.. Khao Lak to Chiang Mai ..

Today is our last day here in Chang Mai. We've had a wonderful last 4 to 5 days cruising through Thailand amazing changes in terrain almost every day. from flat arid plains to very mountainous jungle areas. The roads for the most part are very good, however the hill climbs are unbelievable, quite steep and lots of curves. For the most part we are travelling through agricultural regions, they grow everything here from rice to strawberries and everything is done by hand, extremely hard working people. Everyday is just a lot of fun with some really good parties most evenings. The hill climbs and the heat have been quite hard on a lot of the cars with  lots of vapour lock problems. The fat old girl has had her share of problems too, a broken brake line, vapour lock, rear bearings all easily repaired and off we go. Enjoy the pictures talk at you soon.

Take Care

Laurie & Len

The fat old girl after a bath in front of the Shangri La in Chang Mai 

Water Skiing Anyone?

Isn't She A Cutie?

Stringing Pipe

A village Mayor who had a road closed for one of our time trials, he was at the finish line so we gave him a cold beer

A Load of Sugar Cane

Manual sugar cane harvesting

Local Rock Band

Where is his trunk headed?

Silk Factory

Live Silk worms at the silk factory in Chang Mai

Teak Carving

Read this if you can, we saw part of what these people slaved away to achieve, very heart wrenching

Kim would have loved this lunch, aboard a floating restaurant

lunch at a floating restaurant

Now how about this for a hotel room, a lovely spot we had lunch at a couple of days ago

Some of our ladies and Christof

One of our rally directors, Georgina haming it up with Robert Wilkenson

The oldest car in the rally, a 1906 Italian

A opulent of really good guys

One of the girls only team, a cute little Brit in a really neat all original Alvis

Our fellow Canadian team

Now this is more like it, personal greeting girls in Chang Mai

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