Doi Tung Chiang Rai

Chiang Rai , Thailand

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  • 1

    Golden Triangle

    11 photos

    ... noodles for 50 cents a bowl. Doi Tung Doi Tung, or Flag Peak, is about 70 km away from Chiang Rai. On Doi Tung, the late Princess Mother (mother of the current Thai King) built a summer villa surrounded by a beautifully landscaped ...

  • 2

    Drivers, drugs and Doi

    49 photos

    ... nbsp; Our first stop of the day was Mah Fah Luang Garden. It is the Royal Gardens in front of Doi Tung Palace on top of the mountains in Chiang Rai. It is so beautiful. My favorite was all of the Orchids. They were everywhere. They even have a ...

  • 3

    Mountain Fun and Burmese Border Crossing

    29 photos

    ... picture from a look-out.  By the time we crossed into Burma, it was late afternoon and we wanted to get back to Chiang Rai before dark, so we didn't have any time to explore the Burmese border town.  But Burma makes me a little nervous anyway, ...

  • 4

    Chiang Rai Province

    44 photos

    ... month's volunteer work at Mirror Foundation (see the next entry for our adventures there). We visited various areas in the Chiang Rai province - Doi Tung National Park, Wat Ron Khun - the white temple (a piece of art ever evolving - looks a bit like ...

  • 5

    The awesome weekend, part 2

    ... walked around the city. Chang Saen has all these ruins throughout the city so we checked them out. Then it was a quick bike ride back to Chiang Rai (we'd done a loop) and straight onto the bus back home. All in all, a weekend for the record ...

  • 6

    hiking and politics

    9 photos

    ... up declining that too!  We should have taken him up on that. We had already bought our flight to Bangkok and had another day in Chiang Rai with really nothing specific we wanted to do.  So we went for a long walk and a run and ate at the Night ...

  • 7

    White Temple, Golden Triangle, Burma + more

    69 photos

    After Chiang-Mai i went to Chiang-Rai for a week, or, as i re-named it... Chiang-Rai(n) because that's all it did most the time, but didn't really put a damper (ha!) on my day trips... Chiang-Rai is a nice little city and although it has a few ...

  • 8

    Moving Day

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    ... .........where the Mekong and Mae Sai Rivers converge at the junction that separates Myanmar...........Laos........and Thailand...........very surreal. Then it was back to Chiang Rai.......but on the way we called in to Mae Fa Luang University to meet ...

  • 9

    Easy Rider!

    The following morning we caught the bus to Chiang Rai, and checked into a lovely guest house (Orchid Guest House) before heading out to explore the night market. The next day we hired a moped and took off to explore the surrounding area. We didn't ...

  • 10

    With the family

    26 photos

    ... of mirror incorporated in makes the temple sparkle in the sunlight, and although still not finished, looks unlike any temple in Thailand. Chiang Rai beach is actually located on the Mekok river, and has wide sandyish banks which is a leisure spot for the ...