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Chiang Mai Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chiang Mai - Up North
This is a top pick! ... ( a sunday) was spent wandering around the weekend market which has brilliant food and craft stalls. This is how I expected Chiang Mai to be, charming and interesting. I guess nowhere in Thailand can escape the inevitable effects of mass tourism. ...
A New Year, and a new country
This is a top pick! ... this far (not many people left I'm sure) i will just tell you about our first couple of days in Thailand. They have been spent in Chiang Mai, we have pretty much just been getting ourselves organised AKA planning activities, getting a bit of a ...
Giving Thanks for Life Abroad Part Deux
This is a top pick! ... Law in more than half of the country's 76 provinces - conveniently for me, the CNS General Spokesperson issued a statement saying that Chiang Mai is among those provinces where Martial Law will not be lifted. Of course, I have to live in the one city ...
Thai Cuisine - The Spice of Life
This is a top pick! ... , Oh well, the pad thai looked good! Bringing me to the concept of outdoor cooking. Not all, but mostly all, kitchens in Thailand are outside. I gather there are a few reasons for this. For starters, it is a tropical climate thus being hot and humid ...
Royal Flora with a French and a Scottsman
This is a top pick! ... Just another Disneyland- like Tourist Attraction? Royal Flora Ratchaphruek is a grandiose horticulture exhibit in Chiang Mai, Thailand and of the nearly 80-hectare exhibition, the most beautiful elements are those on a smaller scale: ...
Chiang Mai 3/3: Return Of The Buddha
This is a top pick! ... our previous guesthouse before leaving Pai and they were full so we prepared ourselves for a hunt. The highway back to Chiang Mai was littered with fallen trees from the extreme overnight storm. Thankfully the clearing crews were out early so ...
Ciao Ciao Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... to Wanderlust Associate" well that's because i'm leaving Chiang Mai next week. My fellowship is not over, but I am over Chiang Mai. Oh Thailand. I cannot believe I've lived here for 7 months and tonight is my going away party. I have that same ...
Luang prabang to Chiang Mai, Thailand
This is a top pick! ... and she wasn't wearing a helmet.....fortunately she escaped with a few grazes and a bruised ego (everybody saw). We had a great time in Chiang Mai, and thanks to the locals there, we felt very much at home, hence us staying for a lot longer than we had ...
Chiang Mai 2/3: The Elephants Strike Back
This is a top pick! ... to differentiate them from their living counterparts, also deep in meditative states. We briefly exited the old moated city through Chiang Mai gate, the crumbling brick southern entrance. By no means the most attractive moat and walls we've seen it ...
The Thing I Carried
This is a top pick! ... to arrive days before Rosh Hashana '06 and conveniently in the middle of a coup d'etat. Hannukah '06 was spent in Chiang Mai, Thailand teaching Jewish traditions to Buddhist's while making spicy potato latkes. Wherever I went, I carried with me that one ...
...this and that...
This is a top pick! ... mountains, in a jungle - the city that has been created in this environment, is very much still subject to its surroundings. Chiang Mai is a relatively new city whose growth is in direct relation to the development of mass tourism. From the temple on the ...
In the jungle the mighty jungle
This is a top pick! ... as the Chang Rai one, but then, no wat is going to compare after that. Anyway is was very nice as the views over Chang Mai were good to see. Lastly we decided to hit one more wat, a jungle one so very different again, with tunnels and stuff. There ...
Bumming Around Before Burma
This is a top pick! ... since he was tied up with a new business. In this case my plans are not flexible since there's only one flight a week from Chiang Mai to Mandalay and I'm booked on it. Instead I went to the post office and shipped home a package of some souvenirs by ...
Beer, burgers and buddhas
This is a top pick! As we'd had such a good time at the Park everyone who was staying in Chiang Mai on the Sunday night decided to meet up for a few drinks. Beforehand we went for a wander around the Sunday night market, which is massive, and had dinner with Liz’s mam, ...
National Treasure
This is a top pick! We made it to our final stop north Chiang Mai, for the people of Thailand the city is considered a national treasure. For us, it was a reminder of our trip here 7 or so years ago (our first to Thailand) and what great fun we had. The old city is ...
Ready for Doi Suthep
This is a top pick! ... I'll be hopping on a red truck to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Doi Suthep is located in the mountains overlooking the city of Chiang Mai. In fact, I have a great view of the wat from my balcony. I took this picture this morning - if you ...
Back in Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... thing would definitely be a good practical skill to have in Baltimore, but the tree floating sounds cool, too!.... I'll be in Chiang Mai for a week, decompressing and planning my next month of travel. I hadn't eaten dinner in three weeks, so I ...
Chiang to-the Mai baby
This is a top pick! ... find great things to do, you haven't gotten the full experience of being a traveler. Do it sometime. We got to Chiang Mai yesterday afternoon and after 17 hours in tight quarters with a bunch of hygiene difficient backpackers, we were ready to shower ...
City of Wats
This is a top pick! ... shake). This morning I am feeling a little better but still not up to trekking for hours in the hills of Northern Thailand. After some Rambutans for breakfast I went looking for another place to stay. The Moonlight Guest House is very nice but my ...
Anaconda!
This is a top pick! ... 8 people on one long raft it can get quite tricky. But eventually we made it and had some lunch, and then drove back to Chiang Mai after a successful adventure. Chiang Mai was pretty cool, it seemed to be cleaner than most other places we had been, and ...
Songkran New Year Festival
This is a top pick! ... also seem to be having just as much fun, but only the ones that want to get wet! Thai people and travellers flock to Chiang Mai for Songkran because it has the reputation for being the most fun place to be in the whole of Thailand during the ...
Leaving for Laos
This is a top pick! The last eight days in Chiang Mai have been fantastic fun. The SongKran 'New Year' festival was well worth coming to this city for. Thai's celebrate the new year during the hottest part of the calendar, and what started as a 'blessing' ceremony has ...
Goodbye Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! After Pai, I headed back down to Chiang Mai. Of course I stopped in at Libra Guesthouse again, but this was only going to be a quick visit as my time in Thailand is coming to an end. I've spent most of the last 4 days here just relaxing and reading, ...
Crazy Ladies and Overtaking Elephants!
This is a top pick! ... Doi Suthep another National Park and climbed a steep and twisty road to Doi Phis summit 1685 metres up which gives amaizing views over Chiang Mai and the surrounding countryside. We stayed on the top for the sunset and then made our way back down the hill ...
Move over Jamie Oliver and other stuff...
This is a top pick! ... TV. The next few days were spent just relaxing really. We took time out to see a few temples and wander further around Chiang Mai. We managed to get a full body massage, where there was definitely an element of cupping when the female masseur got to ...
Chiang Mai (Rob)
This is a top pick! ... bicycle, went Wat crazy and lashed in style...this included: Reliving student days by partaking of lunch in Chiang Mai University's Students' Union Meeting up with my former cricket coach to enjoy the "cultural" delights available after ...
To Trek is Dreck Though Elephantine is Divine
This is a top pick! ... really riding one in earnest. Yesteday I did just that and this time it was through a stream and up and down hills in northern Thailand. My van arrived to pick me up for the hour long drive to the elephant camp as planned at 8:15 in the morning. We'd ...
Northern Thailand
This is a top pick! Greetings everybody, I have arrived at Chiang Mai in the Northern province. A little background. Bangkok is in central Thailand near the water. Due to its elevation, it is hot and humid. Chiang Mai is up north in the ...
Back to school
This is a top pick! ... it is very difficult to find even real milk in this part of the world. The next day we began a 5 day cooking course at the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School. We both already make Thai food at home, but our knowledge is limited and we wanted to master the ...