Wat Chedi Luang Chiang Mai

Our first night in Chiang Mai was the night of Sunday Walking Street- a famous market with the same old tat, that Abs seems compelled to buy!! You'd think one elephant souvenier was enough...apparently not.

One of Brad's fellow idiots that lost his passport recommended a place to stay because the trek they operate is really good...turns …

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After two quick introductions of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, we set off on a jetplane to Thailand. Specifically, northern Thailand in the city of Chiang Mai (In thai means New City). Our first stop in Thailand is particularly important because it is one of the main reasons why Kristen wanted to visit Southeast Asia. This would be my …

It was sad to leave Phuket behind because I feel like I only saw the Resort and the water surrounding the island - but I didn't actually get to see the island! Next time, I'm definitely scheduling in a few days to recover from the jet lag so that I have time to explore Patong and Phuket City as well as some of the National Parks.

We got …

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 …

One month til my birthday! I'd usually be on the birthday/Christmas countdown by now, in the x-factor bubble but instead I am planning my next worldy moves, doing my blog, starting my online TEFL course and checking malaria zones on the Internet!!! Love it!!! Great sleep and woke up without the noise of animals, was great! Woke up quite early and …

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So it has been a few days since the last post so I thought that I would catch you all up to date before we head out this morning to our cooking school.

We arrived in Chiang Mai on new years eve - HAPPY NEW YEARS - and ended up falling asleep before midnight. Not to worry though since we were woken up by what I thought …

Dzisiaj mozna powiedziec jest pierwszy dzien ktory w miare spedzilismy w lokalnym czasie czyli wstalismy o 9:00 i caly dzien przechodzilismy na nogach. Poniewaz wczoraj wlasciwie caly dzien przespalismy dzis postanowilismy powoli rozgladac sie miescie. Wybralismy National Museum jako miejsce dobre na poczatek zeby zaznajomic sie z kultura i …

We arrived in Chiang Mai after our 15 hour night train from Bangkok that we managed to get straight away as we arrived after our bus from Siem Reap, this was ideal as we wanted to eliminate another days stay in the capital as we were running out of time. The night train was great and a little different to the Vietnamese, we both slept very well and …

My 8th country in 5 months (and I'm including Tibet as a seperate country to China) and it has flown by! I'm finally on the home leg of the trip, AND MY DAD'S HERE!! I'm seeing Asia through a new arrivals eyes again. I'm so used to orange monks, massive temples, dogs on motorbikes and cheap food that I've started taking it all for granted, so it's …

Pronto! (That's hello in Italian, I'm learning so many languages!) This weekend was Irma's last weekend in Thailand :( She is leaving on Thursday to go back to Italy, so we decided to head to Chiang Mai for the weekend. Anne and Glenn were nice enough to give us Friday and Monday off from volunteering so we could do more. Turns out Anne and …

... ; We went to the night markets (start about 5:00 p.m.) held at different locations around the city and visited the famous Wat Chedi Luang which was built before the 1500's. As you can see from the pictures elephants held a very important place in Thai ...

... . Chiang Mai has lots of temples, many having huge elephants (stone) coming out of the walls all around the temple. The Wat Chedi Luang was very impressive, despite loosing 30m of it's height during an earthquake. Next to it is a huge (really huge) ...

... of Chiang Mai. On our way we found the University of Buddhism, build up out of a couple of temples around the ancient Wat Chedi Luang temple. This old temple once housed the emerald Buddha. The same one we saw a few days ago in Bangkok. There were tons ...

... day before starting my meditation studies at Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, I decided to visit two more of them: Wat Chiang Man and Wat Chedi Luang. It was a tough call.   Yesterday, I learned that the Chiang Mai Women's Prison runs an ...

... in 1545 and has a very interesting appearance.  The actual wat is surrounding the chedi, which is the centerpiece of the Wat Chedi Luang complex.  Because the main event is a chedi, you cannot go in, but if you walk around it you can look ...

Chiang Mai, Thailand - The train ride to Chiang Mai was pretty brutal! The chairs were at odd angles, the air con carriage turned out to be four fans, the train moved very slowly and very little sleep was had. The train was full of travellers and we were ...

... to something.  We try to be friendly, but always have our guard up.  We biked around a bit on our way to Wat Chedi Luang and looked at a cute boutique hotel, just curious about prices.  We eventually made our way to the wat, which has the ...

... Offerings are left at the house to propitiate the spirits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNxPKEbt1PE We go to the most important Wat in Chiang Mai, Wat Chedi Luang. It is a complex made up of Wat Chedi Luang, temple of the big stupa, Wat Ho Tham and ...

... . We spent the night in Bangkok, time to get cleaned up and catch up on some sleep, before booking another overnighter to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.  We spent the day in our favorite McDonald’s getting free WiFi and lunch.  I am a bit ...

... out to the nearby old city to see the temples with our our tuk tuk driver Lois. We went to wat phra sing, wat chedi luang, and wat chiang man. The old city is a walled city with a mot around it, about two miles by two square. For dinner we discovred ...