Chang Mai, Thailand Travel Blogs

A Sad Farewell
Jan 6, 2007

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 time ...

Trekking in Northern Thailand
Nov 17, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Putting the Iron Chef to shame
Nov 30, 2005 (4 photos)

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 section ...

Thai Water Torture
Nov 27, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 now wanted ...

Hanging in Chang Mai
Nov 29, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

White water rafting, Thai boxing...
Jul 28, 2006 (8 photos)

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 ...

Happy New Year...Again....2550
Apr 2, 2007 (23 photos)

... 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 of ...

Ladyboys
Mar 2, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 his ...

Thai foo cooking
Oct 3, 2005

... 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 market ...

Floods
Sep 30, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 ...
Nov 10, 2002 (3 photos)

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
Aug 28, 2000

... all of that lurvely water. Then the trek was over !!!!! So I then spent the next day just riding around on a scooter seeing Chang Mai. Well now I am back in Bangkok, waiting for another bus to take me to some islands where I am going to do a diving ...

At which point do you abort?
Oct 1, 2005 (4 photos)

Quad bike blurb to follow........

Around town
Oct 5, 2005 (3 photos)

A day of well earned rest for the Pidgeandpie Team after two days of strenuous cooking and no-sleep climbing.

Chang Mai - Long Live the King!
Jan 31, 2007 (3 photos)

... the King." We were impressed by the number of tourists in Chang Mai, both young and old. One phenomenon we noticed in Chang Mai especially are the older American or European men with much younger Thai dates/girlfriends. One bar we went to to watch a ...

Chang Mai
Jul 11, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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, especially ...

Yummy Thai food!
Aug 26, 2005 (1 photos)

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 bus ...

to chang mai
Feb 12, 2005

i arrived here via malaysia; melaka, kuala lumpur, penang, pangkor, langkawi thaliand; hat yai, hua hin, bangkok, kanchanaburi, pai

Thailand
Nov 4, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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. We've ...

visiting the local school then onto Chang Mai
Nov 18, 2005 (12 photos)

... 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 !!!!!!!!!!
Oct 17, 2006 (1 photos)

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 ...

Chiang Mai: Jungle Trekk with crazy man
Feb 8, 2006 (17 photos)

... 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 sounds ...

Chang Mai
Jan 21, 2008

... 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 of ...

Chilled Mai
Nov 23, 2005

... 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!
May 17, 2006 (27 photos)

... 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 ...

Songkran new year festival
Apr 16, 2008

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Journey to Chang Mai
Nov 7, 2005

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
Jan 31, 2003 (2 photos)

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, ...

Chang Mai
Aug 12, 1991

A couple of days to explore the region

Bed bugs
Dec 9, 2008

Late start where I discovered the girls had crashed in my room. Should have packed pyjamas. Flight to Chang Mai took a while then a cramped 2 hour cab ride to the border where we stayed the night in a huge teak manor house overlooking the Mekong river. ...