Well we are still in Chiang Mai and Mike did a Thai cooking class. It was an all day course and he loved it. He feels much more confident about ordering thai food. After all that good food, we decided to get in some Muay Thai (Thai kick boxing), only watching of course. It was great we were right up close to the ring, and surrounding the ring and punters were lots of bars, it was a great party atmosphere. The first fighter was about 12 years old, and the boy he fought against was a little bigger but he held his own for most of it. Tough little bugger, however in the end his trainers thru in the towel(literally), they said it was getting to tough for him. I thought he did a great fight. We also saw a woman's fight, that was also great. And the men's fights well they are something else. They go hard at it. One guy was disqualified, another knocked out, it was great. The half time act was some lady-boys doing lip-sink, it gave you a bit of a laugh that's for sure. They called it a 'cabaret show'. The next fight Mike wanted to bet, so he picked his fighter(the larger more solid of the two fighters), i said 'OK i'll take your bet', so it was done, 20 B on the next fight. The smaller fighter was alot more quicker and faster and i won!!! hee hee... He was sure he would win 2nd time round, needless to say i walked away 70B up that night. I was stoked.
Thailand also has great cultural experiences. We went to a night show, where you sit down on the ground and have a traditional Thai meal. Then after the meal they show you all their traditional dances and explain the meaning of them. The 'Nail dance' i think is the most common, but we also got to see the men do a sword dance. And the hill tribes put on a display of their dances as well. It wasn't great balls of excitement, but I'm glad i went and experienced it.
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