Wat Pha Lat on the Monk's Trail, sky going pink. Photo: TravelTellyJan 17, Chiang Mai, Thailand Doi Suthep Up at five. Songthaew to the trailhead behind the zoo, then the Monk's Trail in the dark with a headlamp. A ranger booth at the bottom wanted 100 baht for the trail, new this year, fair enough. Reached Wat Pha Lat as the sky went pink, a temple on a waterfall, one monk sweeping, and a Thai couple about my age stretching after the climb. They walk it every Saturday. We climbed the rest together, they told me which stalls at the top were theirs since childhood, and before we split up they

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Photo: Alberto Capparelliasked if I'd eaten real northern food yet. Tomorrow night, apparently. Kept climbing to Doi Suthep. The gold chedi with the first sun on it and the whole city under a lid of cloud. Down by ten. Saturday Walking Street on Wualai tonight, ate until I couldn't.