Chiang Mai Zoo

Luego de la aventura en Gibbon Experience y habiendo dormido como 12 horas, nos aprestamos a pasar a Tailandia. Despertamos, tomamos desayuno y pa!...drama, el 1er problema del día…resulta que la noche anterior nos habían dicho que el desayuno era incluido y ahora resultaba que no…luego de las puteadas correspondientes nos retiramos …

Chiang Mai Zoo & Aquarium
The grounds to the Zoo are vast and the animals are found in open pens, most of which are technically in reaching distance. None of the animals were chained which I found surprising as they probably could escape if they wanted to, especially the monkeys. The Aquarium was first on our list and was filled with plenty …

On the 21st we walked around part of the canal and then to the saturday market. We were a bit early, and in the end walked around the market twice. We bought such a cool toy, a stapler designed as a sewing machine! The market was pretty busy so we headed back with a chocolate rotee, sort of like a rolled up pancake.
Yesterday Stewart did a …

On way back from Doi Suthep we stopped at the Chiang Mai Zoo. We arrived rather late in the day so we were not sure we would have the time to visit all the things we wanted to. As it turned out you can drive thru the zoo. So we gave it a try. We actually drove to a central location and walked thru the areas. It was a typical zoo but they had a …

Day 96 - Friday (6.1.12)

The train rolled into Chiang Mai at 6:30am. I went and found a red bus like Nink (couch surfing host) had instructed and told the driver that i wanted to go to the university. Luckily there was another guy on the bus who was going there too, so i rang Nink to tell him that i was on my way and he spoke to the other …

CHIANG MAI
Llegamos a Chiang Mai a las 10:30 pm. Teníamos una reserva en el Adventure Hotel para el día siguiente, llamamos para ver si tenían habitaciones disponibles esa noche pero nos dimos por vencidos ya que Nathan llamo dos veces al hotel y la recepcionista solo hablaba Thai y no entendía nada de Ingles. Como ese hotel estaba …

So we weren't planning on writing another blog entry for Chiang Mai after our trek, but then the last couple of days ended up being more interesting than expected in some good ways and some... well.... not so good.

On Thursday night we went hunting for the Chiang Mai night bazaar which we had heard was supposed to be a good market and a …

... of the people at Mirror Art and in the Hill Tribes. 5 star resorts, although they have their place, can never compete with that. From Chiang Mai I got back to Bangkok. I had to fly as there were no train seats available and I don't think my back would ...

As most of you know we love zoos, so we made a trip to the city's zoo. Since they (Thai Government) are not concerned about legal issues (like back in the States) you can get very close to the animals. This allows for some great pictures even though ...

... Thai dishes, from pork and noodle soup to roast duck in a red curry sauce. It was really good fun, probably the highlight of Chiang Mai (after the Spa of course). You even get a cookery book to take home with you. Fab. This entry is nearly ...

... Written on April 4, 2005 in Bangkok Overview of Chiang Mai We were in Chiang Mai for four days. Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand. It didn't feel as hectic as Bangkok but still hectic enough to make scooter riding a bit exciting. ...

... doing nothing and physically by eating as much as we can....yes, what a poor excuse for being lazy but we loved it. We did actually leave the B&B for taking a cooking class (Thai Farm Cooking School is recommended) and cycling to the Chiang Mai ...

... anything or have a nice or non-western meal once in a while. Its quite a convoluted little journey getting from Samui to Chiang Mai, so shortened it a bit by splashing out and flying to Bangkok. That worked pretty well, although it was scarily early ...

... we hung around the guesthouse (literally, we were on hammocks) and just chilled out for a while. On Thursday we went to Chiang Mai zoo and saw pandas (i hadn't realised how rare it is to see pandas, even in captivity) - it was cool, but it started ...

... Chinese are building a local version of Vegas across the river in Laos? A long journey back ended up with us arriving back into Chiang Mai in a torrential rain storm. We managed to wade our way through the flood lanes to the Lela bar in which we hit the ...

... that off every night or only wearing it when the tourists come then I'd be very surprised.  We took the kids to the Chiang Mai Zoo one day.  It's actually a very big and really quite well run zoo.  Sarah was happy as she got to see Hippopotamuses in ...

... ...We all met at the guesthouse at 8:30, piled into the longbed truck, and off we went. Since we were headed a few hours from Chiang Mai the trek involved a lot of driving and only one full day of hiking but, as it turned out, that was more than enough ...