Night Bazaar Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai lured us with the promise of rest, relaxation and relief, from the madness we had just endured. Thus we embraced the opportunity to escape with open arms...

In short, we hightailed it out of Bangkok...Our minds were left in a foggy haze as we sat back on the plane to Chiang Mai, leaving behind us the ashen, grey skies of …

... if it's the last thing we ever do...

Daniel takes ten points for the last blog, it's okay to give other people a chance Daniel, it really is.... Bruce might be able to get this one if he tries hard enough.

So today I realised that tomorrow will be the third Sunday I have spent in Chiang Mai. It does not seem that long at all, …

Moving day to a more peaceful part of the country. Shopping and great food a given.

Quiet morning today. Slept in and kids had a swim while we packed up. Then off to the airport where we met up with Hilary, David and Jan who were catching the same flight to Chiang Mai. Another good flight. Aaron's previous flying problems from the Adelaide …

Songkran, Thai New Year, is a huge city-wide water fight that lasts for three days (April 13-15). Chiang Mai is known to be one of the most happening cities during this time. Everyone buys huge water guns, young westerners and Thais flood into the city, and a number of religious and cultural parades occur. As a huge moat surrounds Chiang Mai, many …

Laos! A country of sweet mangos, friendly monks, and sprawling mountain ranges. We arrived on the 16th and checked into Lao Wooden House, a clean but old colonial style guesthouse made of dark wood. As songkran was still going on, we were soaked on the ride from the airport. The next day we rented rickety bikes and road around the town exploring …

After a couple more days in Bangkok, exploring the city and seeing the sights I decided to move on up north. I caught a 15 hour, non-air-conditioned sleeper train up to Chiang Mai, with a guy called Matt, which definitely wasn't the best experience of my life, but at least all the mosquitoes had a good time.

When I first arrived I …

So we got up at around 6 in order to have time to chill before our pickup. We went down and had breakfast in the hotel which was great. We had omelette, tumeric potatoes, pork frankfurts, fried rice, vegetables stir fried, fruit, tea, coffee. We also had croissant, apple and cinnamon muffin, chocolate croissant, little danish, jam donut. All the …

Over night train ticket to Chiang Mai = Check
Visa for Cambodia = Check

With our tickets and our Cambodian Visa ready, we headed north for our final leg of our first leg in Thailand, Chiang Mai our destination. Having spoken to friends and family members about Thailand, it was immediately apparent that Chiang Mai was one of, if not the …

Tuesday, May 7th. That's the date sorted, that just took us a minute to figure out what day it was when arrived in Chiang Mai. Sukhothai over and done with, and the week of sun, bikes and temples and its up North some more, a further 6 hours or so! Bus time again, this time we didn't appear to have the 'U1' first class, VIP, breakfast included …

This is one of my 3 top places on our trip. I took care of elephants for a day (fed them, bathed them in the river, and played with them). I almost got stepped on, but it was the most amazing day of my life. I never walked around with an elephant before, I only saw them in cages in a zoo. A baby elephant almost died because it was too small and was …

... through town closes to traffic and the walking market takes over. This spectacular is the place to be and be seen on a Sunday night in Chiang Mai. It is also much cheaper than the tourist haute-spot, the Night Bazaar. It feels like the whole city is ...

... this morning....until 6:00 am, that is.  I had some great kao sawy at Daret's last night, walked around the Night Bazaar for a while, got an awesome 30-minute foot massage ($5 USD!), and plopped down in my bed around 11pm. In about three hours, ...

... food. On our way home we past a spa and went in for massages and reflexology. Tonight we're going to the night bazaar and tommorow we leave for a three day elephant trek to the hill tribes. So, my advice is to spend time wandering on ...

... a fish dish just like Sut's mum used to make. After eating the lot (well nearly as there was so much food), we went out to the night bazaar and I got fitted for 3 shirts, and Sarah got measured for a suit. It was then off to the pub for a well deserved ...

... everything you could want and is central to much of Northern Thailand. My only bit of advice would be to use Chiang Mai as a base to explore Northern Thailand, but don't use it as your experience of Northern Thailand; as there is much more to see and ...

... Mai this past weekend, so I ended up participating in a huge gay rights rally on Th Loi Kroh when I was at the Night Bazaar!  As many of you know, I'm missing an important legislative session back in Maryland (don't forget to call your legislators, ...

... on the back of the raft, which was really good fun. It was then back in the truck and back to Chiang Mai. In the evening I went to the Night Bazaar with Tom. It was very touristy but thankfully we were saved by a Thai wine tasting session. We then ...

... do some 'Tropical Mini Golf'. Which would have been much more fun if Aishling hadn't kicked my ass. Then we zipped off to the Night Bazaar and checked out the stalls. They have everything here, and for less than the price in Bangkok. We've booked a ...

... plate of roasted pork in a curried coconut sauce with rice that was only fifty-five cents and it was delicious. That part I love. The night bazaar is something everyone talks about. While it's huge that's about all I can say about it. The quality of the ...

Hi everyone, Arn here. We are still enjoying ourselves in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand and I have been thoroughly enjoying Jayne practicing Thai massage on me ... the head and hand massages are awesome. She finished her lessons on Wednesday and her ...