Mae Salong (Santikhiri) Chiang Rai

Chiang Rai , Thailand

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  • 1

    Golden Triangle

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    ... Rai. Chiang Rai was perfect, cheap and nice accomodations, excellent day and night markets within walking distance, and internet cafes! Chiang Rai was marketed as the gateway to the Golden Triangle in tourist borchures. As usual, we rented a motorbike ...

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    Mountainous Mae Salong

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    ... , vietnamese hats... the shading wasn't the best but I blame the biro I was working with!  Apparently the best thing about Mae Salong is the sunrise. I had great intentions of getting up at 5:30am to join the locals (and Dave) but my body didn't ...

  • 3

    Escape to the North

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    ... in the hills it was fine, hardly saw anybody even when we were struggling uphill at 20km/h :) We visited a semi-touristic village Mae Salong which is famous for tea, there are 7 different varieties which grow here, oolong being the most expensive at 8 ...

  • 4

    Mae Salong - un petit paradis

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    ... une nuee d’enfant!!! qu’est ce qu’on a ri !!! Repos de fin de journee bien merite ! et demain, retour a chiang rai! La biramanie, d’ici, on ne peut y aller que pour la journee… et en etant oblige de rester a la frontiere ...

  • 5

    Mountaintop Village and Tea Plantation

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         On our final day, we rode to a Yunnanese village called Mae Salong.  It became inhabited by a small population of Chinese who fled the Yunnan province after the Chinese Civil War of 1949.  The area at that time was ...

  • 6

    May day

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    ... nbsp; We even passed a few orchards that claimed to have the best orange juice in Thailand!  Our destination was the Chinese settlement of Mae Salong.  About sixty years ago the town was establish by people fleeing Communism. Now the ...

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    Chiang Dao, Tha Ton, Mae Salong and Chiang Rai

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    ... in learning anything! The next day we then walked further to a waterfall which we swam in. Got picked up and driven to Mae Salong hotel - had the most amazing gardens .. and seemed really nice at first glance - but closer look at the rooms ... not so ...

  • 8

    Choice Chiang Rai

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    ... male or female (Kaaaaaaaaaaa) or you can be done with the first word and just use the second. So, welcome to Chiang Rai and the northern part of Thailand. We've actually been up this way for almost a week. After the 'V.I.P' bus trip to Bangkok (not sure ...

  • 9

    Chiang Rai - transit

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    ... du bien de sentir cette odeur, car du pain, ici, il n’y en a pas beaucoup !!!Le samedi, c’est la teuf a chiang Rai. grand marché la nuit, avec concerts, spectacles… fait pour les thai. c’est appreciable d’etre dans une ...

  • 10

    hiking and politics

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    ... 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 ...