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CHILDREN’S DAY ROLLS ROUND AGAIN

If you’ve been in the Northern capital a bit you’ll know that the second Saturday of January is CHILDREN’S DAY. That’s capital letters because if you don’t like struggling through Chiang Mai’s traffic, you’re best advised to stay in bed - at least if you would otherwise be going anywhere near the airport, the zoo, or other places where the fun’s been most highly organised....

This year that’s Saturday the 10th and schools, government offices, even temples are putting on shows, arranging competitions and games and handing out prizes for the little darlings.

But be warned - again - Air Force Base 41 and the Chiang Mai Zoo are the places to be avoided if you suffer from any degree of paedophobia: that’s where they’ll be thickest on the ground, along with adoring parents, uncles, aunts, grandfathers and grandmothers...which tends to include most of the Rose of the North’s population, in every variety

But be warned - again - Air Force Base 41 and the Chiang Mai Zoo are the places to be avoided if you suffer from any degree of paedophobia: that’s where they’ll be thickest on the ground, along with adoring parents, uncles, aunts, grandfathers and grandmothers...which tends to include most of the Rose of the North’s population, in every variety

Of course, if you’ve got nippers yourself, and don’t mind rolling the years back, the Zoo is certainly one place of choice to head for. All those animals - elephants, giraffes, hippos, orangutangs, zebras, not to speak of tigers, penguins, seals, otters - and certainly not forgetting the GIANT PANDAS - oo-errr, aren’t they lovely, and with those enormous circles round their eyes, don’t they just remind you of Auntie Daeng after a long night out....? And who could forget the Giant Pandas, indeed. As the newspapers, television and all the other magazines have been telling us, they’re the two ‘China-Thai Friendship Ambassadors’ though they probably aren’t aware of it...Chuang-Chuang and Lin Hui their names. You can bet that these two fetching visitors are going to be a big drawing card for the zoo for the next ten years, before they’re expected to go back to their homeland. (And one wonders whether there’ll be the patter of little panda feet around the enclosure, and what will be the national status of such newcomers if there are).

Anyway, 10th of January - here it comes. Join the happy miniature hordes - entry free for those of them under 135 cms. No bending your knees, now. More info at 053-221179, 226194. See you there, maybe.