Chang Mai
Travel Blogs from Chang Mai, Thailand
Trekking in Northern Thailand
... no shortage of hotels, guesthouses, restaurants, pubs, entertainment, and endless shopping opportunities. With the ongoing Loi Kratong festival, Chang Mai seems to have a real buzz about it. Despite the interesting nature of the city we decide to head ...
A Sad Farewell
Hello friends and family. Some of you have already heard and for those of you who haven't, I'll try to break the news lightly. After four months of exciting travel through Turkey, India, Nepal, Vietnam, and Cambodia, John and I have decided that it's ...
Putting the Iron Chef to shame
e were up early to grab a quick bite to eat before getting picked up for our cooking class. We started off by going to the local fresh food market and selecting all the ingredients. They had every vegetable under the sun and then some. The meat ...
Thai Water Torture
... randomly stopping for some reason, we pulled into a service station around 6am and were ferried off in taxis taking us to central Chang Mai. Whilst everyone was jumping in and loading their packs onto the roof, Meg was cornered by the English chick who ...
White water rafting, Thai boxing...
What an awesome last few days. Fresh from my night train, the rain seemed to have set in - so what better thing to do than some white water rafting in some swollew wet season rivers! Have always wanted to do some white water rafting and it was ...
Hanging in Chang Mai
... tribes up for sale. At this stage we'd had enough shopping so decided to get dropped back in the "China Town"part of Chang Mai. Wandering around we went to the touristy Night Market, grabbed a quick bite at a local Thai restaurant and wandered back to ...
Happy New Year...Again....2550
... to Chang Mai, 700 baht sleeper service....ten quid for 15 hour journey with my own bed, result and sleep like a baby. Chang Mai on first reflexion was bigger and more touristy than I expected. The lonely planet paints a picture of the culture center ...
Ladyboys
... my folically challenged head somewhat less red. So. we joined the explore tour and slept overnight on a sleeper train from Bangkok to Chang Mai. If only Richard Branson could call on so many staff - a loud speaker man who made the same speech with ...
Thai foo cooking
... couple she met, also partaking in a cooking fest extravaganza, where 'Mr Ageing Texan' and his young Thai bride (a common sight in Thailand), closely followed, to save the day, by Emma and Matt, a great couple from Yorkshire. After a visit to the local ...
Floods
... weather patterns, can do. The river was so high and houses were partly submerged where there had been no banking. Chang Mai and Northern Thailand had experienced the worst floods in over 40 years! One thing that struck me about Chang Mai apart from it ...
Sawat di kraap everyone arn here we are ...
Sawat di kraap everyone, Arn here. We are still in the northern Thai city of Chang Mai. It is Thailand second largest city, but is much smaller, quiter, cleaner and cheaper than Bangkok. The weather here has been beautiful, with the exception of a little ...
Travel n Trekin n Travelin
... morning. I was not happy. I abused a tuk tuk driver. I took a taxi and arrived on Koh Sahn Road. I arranged an overnight bus to Chang Mai. I arrived. It was 6 in the morning. It was a hard 48 hours, but I was in Chang Mai for only one reason, and that ...
Around town
A day of well earned rest for the Pidgeandpie Team after two days of strenuous cooking and no-sleep ...
Chang Mai
... get travel sick on a train!) and was awake from three in the morning, trying to make myself feel better! Anyway we eventually landed in Chang Mai about 6:30 in the morning, and once we had reached the hotel and I had had breakfast, I felt much better, ...
Yummy Thai food!
Arrived in Chang Mai yesterday early morning (about 5.30am) and managed to see all he monks out for morning alms which is where they accept food offerings from the locals. We hen checked into our hostel and went back to sleep as we had struggled on the ...
to chang mai
i arrived here via malaysia; melaka, kuala lumpur, penang, pangkor, langkawi thaliand; hat yai, hua hin, bangkok, kanchanaburi, ...
Thailand
... hours flight (thanks Dunbar!). We did a quick bit of shopping and had dinner before getting an early night, as we were heading to Chang Mai the next morning. We flew up north using the Thai version of Ryanair, Air Asia, which is great and really cheap. ...
visiting the local school then onto Chang Mai
... spread... i just bought some instead.! We had our mushie soup for lunch then made our way in the songthaw to the city of Chang Mai... It was nice to get back to the big smoke.. A quick shower and we all wanted to see the temple Doi Suthep which ...
I am now a Thai chef !!!!!!!!!!
I spent an eventful evening watching 7 thai boxing matches one including young children and one including women!!!!!....the highlight of the night being the moment I realised I had just staked the money to cover my bar tab and ride home on a fighter I ...
Huoy Xai to Chang Mai Day 201 (7th Dec)
... castle. Eventually we made it! 3 days, 3 boats, 3 tuk-tuks, 2 buses and 2 guesthouses, thank god, I hope it was worth it! Chang Mai wasn't what I expected, instead of a small quaint town it turned out to be a busy, frantic city, interesting. We saw an old ...
Chiang Mai: Jungle Trekk with crazy man
... of a challenge; we played a few and ended up reverting to pyros and building small fires on the picnic tables. Later the Chang tribe was formed inspired by the local Chang beer and war paint was smeared and handshakes created. Morning came with the ...
Chang Mai
... joining this boisterous group for a few Singhas. Well after 5 hours of restful drunken sleep we arrived in Chang Mai. Chang Mai, Thailand's second largest city, is quite a marvel. This city is a real crossroads of Thailand. A mix ...
Chilled Mai
... we both felt like we'd done 10 rounds in a Thai boxing ring so it was straight to a thai massage parlour for a rub down. Chang Mai is a lovely city, much more chilled out and relaxed than Bangkok but with just as many lady boys as Conor found out on our ...
Chang Mai and elephant riding!
... of the old walls, however we expected it be a little more historic than what it is nowadays, which is a basically a modern day city. Chang Mai has over 300 temples and we visited one or two on our walking tour of the city! The highlight of our stay in ...
Chang Mai
... lovely computer just deleted my draft...oh boy. So I'm going to have to make this a short one. Kris and I arrived in Chang Mai after a long bus ride. Settled into the guesthouse we are staying at and headed out for an evening. ...
Journey to Chang Mai
We boarded the train from Bangkok and arrived in Chang Mai 13 hours later and the Thai trains are far better than the ones on Vietnam. We were picked up by thongsaw trucks and transferred to our hotel which was nice with a pool. We freshened up and ...
Jungle Book
After meeting up with Pat and the missus in Bangkok we headed to Chang Mai in the north of the country for a bit of jungle trekking. That was an amazing 3 days..... walking through some of the most unbelievable forest and country side, riding elephants, ...
Bangkok Chang Mai . Christmas and New Year
... round the camp fire and singing Auld Langs Ayne, Everyone really enjoyed it even though it wasn't their normal custom. Back to Chang Mai after another short hike and some bamboo rafting, ours started to fall apart just after we got on but we smiled ...


