Day whatever, I lost track, started out so promising. We were gonna eat a delicious breakfast, rent mopeds, and then travel around Chiang Mai and the surrounding area for the day. However, that is not what happened. In Thailand they have both automatic and manual mopeds for rent. Because none of us were anywhere near experienced in our moped skills we didnt wanna have to figure out how to drive a manual at the same time. This made things quite complicated. Our hostel only had automatics for rent. However, there were some places in the city that we could, hopefully, rent some automatic mopeds from.
So we set off around the city in hopes of finding some tight rides. However, that never occurred and around 2pm we decided to throw in the towel. The mopeds werent happening like we hoped. John decided to head back to the hostel so me and Stu went to go get some amazing Thai massages that literally were everywhere. Seriously. Im sure wherever you are in Thailand, you are no more than a 5 minute walk to any massage parlor, and not the dirty kind either. Altho those are everywhere too.
Anyway, me and Stu walked into what appeared to be a very happy and peaceful looking massage place. We looked at the menu, yes they had a menu, for what we wanted, and we happened to notice that they had a one hour massage for like $6. How could we say no to that!! Was the massage amazing? Yes. Should they have named it beating/massage? Hells ya. Omg. I swear this older Thai woman was loving beating the crap out of me. I felt so good after it tho. Wow, I just realized how dirty those last few sentences could sound...
That evening we decided to go to a Muay Thai fight. They too are everywhere in Thailand, but apparently the best and cheapest are in Chiang Mai. So we decided to go to one. I was expecting men fighting each other, and I was half right. The first few fights were kids that couldnt have been older than 12. But they gradually got older and more intense. We saw 2 knockouts and it was really cool. The best part would of course be the halftime show. Yes I said halftime show because thats really the only possible way to explain it. Basically they gave us a program that had 7 fights listed and after 5 there was a listing for a 'special fight.' I remember John, Stu, and I joking about what the special fight could possibly be. Maybe itll be like a tag team match. Maybe itll be like a wrestling cage match with chairs and stuff. We had no idea how close we were.
What occurred was hard to fathom. 4 guys walked into the ring and sat down in a circle facing each other. Then a different guy came in and blindfolded, yes BLINDFOLDED, the 4 guys. Who preceded to stand up and wildly throw blind punches at each other for the next 4-5 mins. It was absolutely mind-blowing. I really couldnt believe what was happening cuz it was so crazy. Definitely something I would never ever do. But it was another ridiculous experience that Im happy I was able to experience during this journey Im on.
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