The temple is a 360 step hike and we chose to hike it on New Years Day, when every Thai person is on holiday and most of them head to a temple. It was a staircase packed with people under five feet tall. This mountainside temple is Chiang Mai's most popular wat and dates back to 1383. The builders allegedly chose this site by placing a relic of Buddha on an elephant's back and letting it roam until it trumpeted and circled before lying down and eventually died. (I read that after the fact. We wandered around this temple like a bunch of gapers as the Buddhists held their religious ceremonies) Robin and I actually went into a temple because we saw two monks blessing two lines of people. As some old lady was dragging mom into the other line, I noticed that she and I were in the line that only had men in it... awkward. The market below the temple was fun, we purchased some good gifts and some yummy ice cream (nothing to be compared to the god-of-an-ice-cream-flavor banoffee which will be mentioned in a future blog by lexie)
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