It is time for us to finish up the southern part of our travels.  After 5 weeks in southern Thailand we are leaving the beach and heading north to Chiang Mai and the interior of Thailand.  Our days in the south worked out much better than we could have expected, with rain (during the monsoon season no less) only impacting us for really 2 days out of the 35 or so that we have been here.

We changed our proposed plan a bit to and ended up going to Khao Lak and Kata at the end instead of going up the gulf coast and stopping in Bang Saphan and Hua Hin – I guess we will have to visit those spots the next time we are here 🙂  The change worked out for the best though as the weather was fantastic particularly in Kata and we had some great down time just enjoying the days we had left.

For our last day in Kata I finished up with a bit of spa time – I got the ladies to scrape the barnacles off the bottoms of my feet (and for me they did not have to use a Dremel tool for that), and then had them finish up with a foot and oil massage.  We rounded out the day with a trip to the Red Chair restaurant – this is a spot that was recommended by my parents as one of the places they frequented when they were here.  It is way off the beaten path, so unless you knew about it you would never find it, but it must be popular with the locals – we had some of the best Thai food we have had so far there, and it cost about 500 Baht (about $15) to feed the whole family – and we ate a lot there!

We left the hotel at 8pm for our journey to Chiang Mai.  We are flying the midnight flight to Bangkok, and then ‘sleeping’ in the Bangkok airport until 6am for our morning flight to Chiang Mai.  I am not sure how well this will all work out, but but I expect some tired, cranky people to appear at the end 😉