Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. This post, I will take everyone to Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai Province again. This time my wife and I did not visit the temple. But we visited another place that Thai people respect. This place is a stupa for worshiping King Naresuan. An important king in the history of Thailand during the Ayutthaya period. This stupa was completed in 1970 or 55 years ago.

Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. I grow several papaya trees in two locations, both in the home garden and in the longan orchard. I grow them to eat with my family. Papaya can be eaten fresh and it is used as an ingredient. I have shared my wife's recipe for the clear soup with papaya and papaya salad in old posts. But in this post, I want to share a papaya curry with chicken and glass noodles. In this dish, besides my wife picking papaya from the home garden, she also picked turmeric, culantro, spring onions and kaffir lime leaves from the home garden.

Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. My post takes you all to see a large rural community in Chiang Mai. It's another post where I share the scenery of the community among nature. This community is called Ban On. Ban On community is another hill tribe community. An ethnic group living in the north of Thailand. And there are some Thai people living here. This community is surrounded by peaceful and beautiful nature. Most of the people in the community are farmers. Their local farms are on the plateaus and hills. When my wife and I had the chance to pass through this community, we really liked the scenery. Especially the houses in this community area. Most of them are old wooden houses. It is an original wooden house. And some houses are simple made with bamboo. We don't see many houses made of bricks and spread cement on bricks in the community.

Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. In my home garden there are many kinds of vegetables and fruits. It is a place where there are many ingredients for my wife to use vegetables and fruits in cooking. Every time before my wife cooks food for the family. She would walk around the home garden to see what vegetables and fruits were available to cook each day. In the home garden, the mango trees are bearing fruit. The mangoes in the garden can be picked to eat fresh or used as ingredients. This time she picked mangoes, celery, bird's eye chillis and lime to make spicy mango salad.

Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. Tung Khao Puang Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai Province. This sub-district has many villages, including both local Thai villages and ethnic villages. Most of them are buddhists. The sacred place for religious ceremonies is the temples. And each village has its own temple. In this post, I will take you to see a temple in this subdistrict. This temple is called Wat Phra That Si Sam Rak. This temple is a common monastery for local Thai people and Tai Yai people for religious ceremonies together. Wat Phra That Si Sam Rak is a new temple, built in AD 1986 or about 39 years ago. Built to honor King Naresuan, King Phra Ekathotsarot and sister of two kings. The two kings were the kings of Thailand during the Ayutthaya period.

Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. Even though I was born and lived in the capital for about 40 years. And just moved to the countryside about 8-9 years ago. But now I'm more used to lifestyle in the countryside than in the city. I am more used to and enjoy natural scenery than tall buildings scenery. And I'm used to simple and peaceful rural lifestyle in the countryside. Sometimes when I have free time. I would take my wife for a drive around the countryside to enjoy the scenery and atmosphere. Sometimes I drove more than a hundred kilometers. But it was worth with journey. It makes me enjoy and happy. The countryside in Chiang Mai is a community among nature. Mostly we see farms and mountains. You will see mountains almost everywhere in this province. Every time we drive around and enjoy the scenery and atmosphere in the countryside, we take photos of them. And this post, I also have some photos of the scenery and atmosphere in the countryside of Chiang Mai to share with everyone too. It is a local farm from several places in this province. Hope everyone enjoys it.