Breakfast was a feast for the eyes and the nose, at one of the Farmer's Markets, where booths offer a fabulous variety of fruits, vegetables, fresh seafood, and lots and lots of cooked delicacies. At the end I settled for a sliced breast of duck in a chili sauce and a plate of mango with sweet sticky rice. Karen and Patrick went for a veggie stir fry accompanied by sweet pickled garlic. Delicious!
The sky was overcast, but holding, so we took off with the idea of doing a loop from Chiang Mai to Phayao to the northeast, and then cut to the south to Lampang back to Chiang Mai, but it was too ambitious a plan. By the time we reached Phayao it was getting to noon, and starting to rain and we were faced with another 4 hours of riding to complete the loop back to Chiang Mai. So, after having lunch with a group of smiling ladies that fed us like we were their starving children, we headed back the way we had come.
On both the way in and the way back we passed the Wang Pa Pao hotspring location, where the main attraction is a continuous geyser that throws hot water a good 10 m unto the air (I suspect it is a pumped ""geyser" because of its regularity). You can buy a small basket of four eggs and cook them by immersing it in the pool around the geyser, or have a coffee while you soak your feet in a trough filled with hot water. You can also rent a small cabin and take a thermal bath. An abandoned temple show that the place has been used for mineral bathing for many years in the past.
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