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Chiang Rai Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chiang Rai, Thailand
North Thailand road trip
This is a top pick! ... if they are reaching out of their graves. In all it has a very Gaudi feel to it. As we continue onwards we pass through Chiang Rai on our way to the border town Mae Sai. Here we find the border between Myanmar and Thailand. When we arrived the people ...
Dung Energy
This is a top pick! ... 20 kg of elephant dung per day. But that problem may not be around for much longer. Encouraged by their success, Chiang Rai MP Samart Kaewmeechai has secured funding to build 10 more digesters in the village from the Department of Local ...
Free Schools training in Fang
This is a top pick! ... of work can be done on computer at home. It adds to our costs a bit, but not too much as I can rent a cheap apartment in Chiang Rai and travel relatively cheaply. But, it means we won't get the income from renting out the house in Bangkok and that is a ...
Chiang Rai and extra pics
This is a top pick! ... you need to be prepared to be asked hundreds of times whether you would like a massage as you walk from the guesthouse. Outside of Chiang Rai town we stayed in some really nice huts that you can see in the photos. They are next to a Huai ...
Week ending 24 Feb 2551
This is a top pick! ... I am proud of, but seems it will help the school and help Alif. Once the baby is born and everyone is OK, we are moving to Chiang Rai to live. I work for a Thai NGO there. Work is very busy but good and with a few other bits and pieces on the side we ...
Akha Festival to celebrate new farming season
This is a top pick! ... is to bring very bad luck. Recently most Akha villages have been converted to Christianity by missionaries, but Baan Apa near Chiang Rai is one of the few remaining Akha villages where the traditional beliefs and practices still take place. The ...
Day 95
This is a top pick! ... we walked about 4km with our main back packs on to the new northern Chiang Mai bus station. From here we booked a ticket to Chiang Rai which is a smaller town even closer to the Northern borders with Laos and Burma. We had to hang around for a few hours ...
Day 97
This is a top pick! ... forgot to pick up my laundry from a place over the road as we hurried in to a tuk-tuk. I'd enjoyed my brief stay in Chiang Rai for sure. I'd had several football related conversations with a nice Dutch guy at our guest house - he had been there already ...
Week Fifteen - Luang Prabang to Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... massages. Book one day cookery course with the famous Chiang Mai Cookery School for 900 baht each for Wednesday. Much nicer than Chiang Rai. Have lunch in aptly named Good View Restaurant and watch the boats floating by. Get tuk-tuk to Airport Plaza Mall ...
Back In Thailand
This is a top pick! ... (most desert dry, a few emerald green) dominated the landscape on this relatively short but stifling hot ride. Approaching Chiang Rai was just like coming into any other city as the buildings, vehicles and people all got closer and closer together ...
Khun Gon
This is a top pick! Khun Gon waterfall is about 15km South West of Chiang Rai town. I have seen it described as the biggest waterfall in Chiang Rai province but I have also seen another described as that, so???? I went there very quickly a few weeks ago. Once you park ...
Shiniest Wat in the world ever
This is a top pick! ... was even time to nip into the 7/11 (oh how we've missed them) and get a cheese and ham toastie. Excellent. The bus ride to Chiang Rai was only 2 hours, which after 10h/day for the last 2 days on boats was a doddle, even if the bus was rubbishy. The bus ...
New Year's Eve
This is a top pick! ... a lot of fun. Lindsey and I don't party like most backpackers. In fact, I hadn't had a beer since we got to Thailand. So we decided to enjoy our night out. We drank one of every Thai beer we could find. We wandered around ...
Rural Chiang Rai
This is a top pick! ... was more expensive than we had anticipated. Prices were low in Chiang Mai because of competition and market saturation. Chiang Rai doesn't have these problems and prices reflected that. So we decided just to spend a couple of days in the ...
Elephant Ride
This is a top pick! The Elephant Ride We hadn't done much in Chiang Rai. We were relaxing and enjoying the holidays. One afternoon we visited the Hill Tribes Museum in town and saw a trek that looked pretty interesting. It was a boat ride to a ...
Coming Home
This is a top pick! ... up on things we aren't sposed to eat but want. Roads are better here and we arrive after 2 hours 15 mins (54 baht - 90p) at Chiang Rai bus station. After some haggling we get a tuk tuk out of the city - north to the YMCA as it has a swimming pool and ...
3 Feb 2550 - arrival in Chiang Rai
This is a top pick! ... 2550. 0830hr I am on the air conditioned bus to Chiang Rai. It costs 169 Baht and takes 3 and a half hours. I got to Chiang Rai and got somewhere to stay, developed some film and checked email, and otherwise I seemed to have achieved nothing today. I ...
4 Feb, about 2550 years after the death of Buddha
This is a top pick! ... and less we will want to keep the house in Bangkok. It now seems unlikely that we will want to move back there after coming to Chiang Rai or that Kanchana will want the kids to live in Bangkok. Perhaps we will just keep the Bangkok house for a year or ...
Christmas
This is a top pick! ... gave us stockings as going away presents. So we had the basic ingredients for the holidays. The night market in Chiang Mai was very useful because we stumbled across DVD stands that sold region free movies for $2.50 each. We were even ...
Motorbike Trip in Northern Thailand
This is a top pick! ... of Thailand, Myanmar, and Loas and a region made famous for illicit opium and heroin production. Heading further south brought us to Chiang Rai and without a doubt, one of the most fascinating "art projects" I've ever seen; the White Temple. Check ...
Day 96
This is a top pick! ... web cam. The odds were hopelessly in the Aussie's favour again but I still wanted to see. I gave up on it and walked around Chiang Rai looking for something else to do. I headed for a temple that I'd read about in the lonely planet - it was actually ...
Trip to Chiang Rai to find a house and look at sch
This is a top pick! ... school we visited, the kids could walk or ride bikes. The second school, they could perhaps ride bikes. We'll be living with Chiang Rai town which I didn't want, but the house is really nice and so I think it will be good. Anyway see the pics ...
A Few Days in the North
This is a top pick! We needed to leave the country again (every 90 days), so we decided to fly to Chiang Rai and travel to Burma by motorbike. It's only about 60kms to the border by highway, but we took the scenic route. But that's the next entry. This ...
A different perspective for you
This is a top pick! I like the essay that is on the following link: http://www.hilltribe.org/videos/07-video-english-rangerover.php/small It explains really well what local people may think about tourists. And also commercials that are often taken for granted ...
Working in Chiang Rai
This is a top pick! I just spent almost two months in Chiang Rai working for Mirror Foundation. Actually I worked 45 days straight (long days) without a day off - but who is counting. What did I do while I was there???? Before I forget most of it, I will tell you. ...
On Meeting With the Village People
This is a top pick! ... of bamboo reeds and dried, weaved elephant grass. Eva and I went to visit them the other day. Chiang Rai is a small town in the extreme north of Thailand, very close to the Golden Triangle area where Thailand meets Laos and Myanmar/Burma (depending on ...
Chiang Rai - Thailand Final Thoughts
This is a top pick! Chiang Rai was just an over night on our way to Chiang Khong and the Laos border. Some of the eateries seem a bit more upmarket than other towns. There is a decent night market. This is our last night in Thailand on this trip: Thailand Summary ...
Volunteers to Chiang Rai and back
This is a top pick! ... . We also visited Wat Phra Keow (same name as the one in Bangkok). Wat Phra Keow is a beautiful old temple in central Chiang Rai that was actually a forest temple before the town existed here. In this temple, about 600 years ago a lightening strike hit ...
A Stroll Around Chiang Rai
This is a top pick! ... We got lost down dirt roads, chased by stray dogs, found a cool bodhi tree, and finally made our way to the river. Chiang Rai has a very nice park on the banks of the river. When we first approached I assumed it was a country club or ...