Poon

Poon, originally uploaded by Robbi Baba.

We hired an English speaking guide to take us about in her air con mercedes. Her name is Poon and she was very nice. I wish she'd been a bit more fluent in English, but she was still worth her weight in gold to us.

Here's a post from Chiang Mai:

Today we hired a guide named Poon, who took us around to three beautiful wats (temples). The wats are really walled compounds with at least one amazing temple, maybe a school for monks, lots of dogs laying around in the road. We (meaning the adults) were enthralled by the gorgeous architecture and statuary and ancientness of these places--one of them was 1000 years old apparently. The kids were less enthusiastic after a while. It was pretty hot.
We went to a hill tribe cultural center/museum which was even less interesting for them, although we saw three men swimming in a big lake with their horses. Just the horse’s heads above water.
Poon also took us to a real supermarket where we could get big jugs of drinking water. That was really fascinating! I bought the kids weird popsicles and they were content.