The Moto Wanderer: Berry's SEAJ trip Day 40: Chiang Rai FC match day (7/15/15)

Woke up and met up with Dani whom I had met a few days earlier and she expressed interest in joining me as I go to see a football match, so we plan to scoot around together and see a few things. First thing we go to is the Singha park to take the trolley tour (free) so that we can feed some giraffes and zebras.

Berry and I climbed a hill at our first trolley stop to get a lay of the land. Such a beautiful area!

Berry and I are getting ready to feed some animals.

You feed one giraffe and the rest of the animals get jealous and want some too. Berry wants to try.

I am showing Berry how to feed a zebra because we must treat the animals equally :)

Now berry is feeding them. Brave lil bear.

We are all out of food but Berry enjoyed feeding the animals.

The tour doesn't have a lick of English (kind of expected that) so you just go along for the ride to see the views until we get to the animals and are able to buy buckets of food to give to them. After finishing up that tour, we head up to the Black house. The white temple and the black house are artistic temples that CR is known for among tourists. Get there and the main house is this huge temple looking building with tons of skeletons, furs, etc. (another temple of death) throughout. It too is a group of buildings with similar motifs, some of the buildings are pretty cool looking, ex. One group of them are orbs with furniture inside for viewing. They even have black swans in the water next to the buildings.

The main temple of the Black temple complex. Berry is ready to get inside and check it out.

This was a golden dragon throne thing. This temple was more about weird artwork and furniture than anything else (from what I got from it)

You may have a bear rug, these people have an alligator rug. Granted it is on a table but yeah - taking the rug game up a couple notches.

A really long table with horns on it. Oh yeah and another alligator skin.

One of the side temples as we walk around the grounds. Berry likes the dark wood on all the buildings.

Some different looking buildings in the area (with more to come).

Group housing? We enjoyed the look of these buildings.

Then we came upon this walkway to this spectacular lone temple. Berry says go see it so we walk down the sketch path.

Doorway to the temple. FANTASTIC! This might be my favorite temple doorway I have seen yet.

These were the homes that inspired the architecture from Star Wars. Not really but they looked odd (especially for where we were at) but the inside had similar dark furniture.

Cool place to stop and look around to see some different artistic endeavors. After this it is time for the day's main event, the Chiang Rai United's match against the Army team; their national anthem is a song with video accompaniment with pictures of their leader doing various tasks which I found pretty weird and to me had many hints of what I think about when I imagine of propaganda used in communistic societies. The stadium is minimalist (think high school football stadium) but with decent restrooms and food/drink that is not price gouging like in America Had a drink or 2 throughout the game. The play made me want to have many more; I really wish I was joking by saying this, but I honestly think the varsity team when I was in high school could have stood a chance and maybe even beat either of these teams. The ball movement/control was sloppy and the striker for the home team was a complete whiny baby anytime a defender was within 5 ft of him. In the stands, the concrete benches (no back rests or recognizable seats) rose up the side of the stadium and we happened to sit right in front of the cheer section for our side of the field; they have 3 chants that they constantly repeat, one of which is a lady gaga song that they have changed the words. Game ends at 0-0. After the game, we head back to the hostel and I chill a little before bed as I head back to CM in the morning.