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Mae Sai Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mae Sai, Thailand
7 Feb 2550
This is a top pick! 7 Feb 2550. Very sore back today. We had some breakfast with our host family and then went to the school for Julie's go at teaching. Soon after she arrived she was thrown into it. She did well and enjoyed it and I helped her out. We slept at Mirror Art ...
Mae Salong on the King's Birthday
This is a top pick! We headed back out into the mountains, this time for a Yunnanese village called Mae Salong. It's a pretty popular tourist spot as well, so the road in is nice. The area has replaced the traditional poppy (opium) crops with tea and coffee, so ...
Doi Tung and Mae Sai
This is a top pick! ... hour or so. We actually had the engine off for much of the ride and just coasted out of the mountains. We made it to Mae Sai in mid-afternoon, parked our bike near the border, and crossed over to Burma. They stamped us, took our 500 baht visa ...
Stop Slavery
This is a top pick! ... it is worth watching. She runs a drop in centre at Mae Sai where the street kids can come and eat lunch and relax and learn a little. Mae Sai has lots of street kids that come from Burma to beg in Thailand or on the bridge in between the 2 countries. I ...
Mae Sai and Chiang Saen
This is a top pick! ... at the g/house and we all realised that we would like to visit Burma again (for more than just a day). Chaeng Saen Left Mae Sai by sangthaew the next morning headed for Chaeng Saen. Really nice drive with some very friendly people in the back of ...
A visit to the Golden Triangle
This is a top pick! ... one the computer. I would have stayed another day but the internet connection didn’t cooperate so I decided to head over to Mae Sai. I think one of the things on my to-do list is learning how to ride a motorcycle, a small semi-automatic ...
Mae Sai! (Oh dear!)
This is a top pick! Oh dear!!! Paul's disappointment started hear! Mae Sai was abit of a let down really or we'd built it up too much - we'd seen postcards showing some fantastic views from a wat located on a hill in the town and we got up there and both thought 'Is that ...
what a day
Another day at DEP. And I thought Wednesday was chaotic. We got to the school at around 9 AM and went into separate classes to do the English lessons. I had 4th grade which, with their grade level system, meant that my class knew the ...
Day 14
Day 14: Mae Sai / Chiang Rai We got up early and went to the border town of Mae Sai. This is in Thailand but is one point where you can cross into Myanmar (formerly called Burma). So we went across the border for 2 hours and went to a market and had a ...
Boarder Crossing - Burma
... carried on to visit some temples. Back on the bus for a good few hours we reached the golden triangle - where the 3 countries meet Thailand Burma and Laos. We took a trip across the river to Lao and then had lunch before long we were back on the Bus to ...
Mae Sai
I went up to Mae Sai, Myanmar for the day because most foreigners living in Thailand have to exit and reenter the country every three months, so I had to make a border run to exit and reenter. Now I'm on a work permit so I don't have to do the ...
To Myanmar (Burma)
... villages.) All and all Thailand is pretty clean, well maintained, and safe for tourist. A lot fewer tourist as you travel north (and Mae Sai is the most northern town). People:Very friendly, mostly very thin, no one is obese, lots of mini-skirts (back ...
Living among Giants
... infection on his back. Although it was painful for him to carry trekkers (the chair used to give tourists rides here in Thailand isn't particularly good for elephants), his owner simply covered the lump with a cloth so the tourists would never know. After ...
The Golden Triangle
... was well once again in Northern Thailand. We stayed only one night in Chiang Rai before taking a local bus with a hilarious commandant to Mae Sai. It turned out the Mae Sai bus station was far from town so we caught a songthaew to Mae Sai where we ...
Belly, or at least Epidermis, of the Beast
... need a lighter. You want Boom Boom? No. You want taxi? No. Spent about one hour walking around Taliceik, then crossed back to Mae Sai. Caught the bus home to the farm--four hours, pretty comfortable. Thai police and soldiers had 4 checkpoints, ...
Furby Dogs and Travel Logs
... entry to this travel blog. We are currently at Harbor house and we are all assimilating fairly well to the culture of Northern Thailand. The girls here are very nice and they have been treating us as welcomed guests. We have spent the last week preparing ...
Sawatdee Kaa!
... ; We made a couple of Thai friends on the train and I got to practice speaking a bit :) We then took a bus from Chiang Mai to Mae Sai, which was fun too. I got to talk to the monk sitting next to me, which was pretty cool. We met some of the ...
Das Goldene Dreieck
... , wobei man es nicht wirklich Dorf nennen konnte, da das dieses lediglich aus Souventirstaenden bestand :-) Dann ging es weiter nach Mae Sai, dort konnten wir 45 Min. ("die Zeit war knapp") den Grenzuebergang nach Myanmar besichtigen, der ebenfalls aus ...
Mingin' Mae Sai
... dinner with him and a couple of Chang Beers. I think Dave was glad to have a drinking buddy for a night... One night was enough in Mae Sai. It was a bit smoggy and noisy for us, after having come from more peaceful parts of the Golden Triangle. ...
Mae Sai and Tachileik
... want to be hip) and go back again. This little bit of bureaucratic fuck around is necessary to extend the visa another 30 days. Mae Sai has nothing worth mention as far as I'm concerned. The most interesting I experienced there was a string of police ...
Half Day in Myanmar (Burma)
Myanmar (Burma)~ We crossed the border into Burma for half the day....although we were only in the border town, it was very different. Lots of beggars and many sad birth defects. There was alot of people trying to sell us viagra, the blue ...
Visa Run...
... Laos and Thailand all meet) we then took a boat trip over to Laos then back for lunch. After lunch we then headed to the Mae Sai boarder for the visa stamp - there were another 2 Irish girls also doing the trip for the same reason as me. Unfortunately, ...
A crystal clear waterfall
... inspiring tour up the "Doi Thung" (1420m altitude) overlooking the border of Burma (Myanmar). Then crossed the finish line at Mae Sai around 5.00pm, sunset. We had deserved a beautiful hotel and rented an amazing room in a 5 star...for around 6 euros ...
Top North of Thailand
... in Bangkok.We also passed back through Chiang Mai a few days later just after the police diffused a bomb! Boom! In Mae Sai we strolled along past the market looking for a guesthouse and went to a collection of riverside bungalows. We had a ...
6th destination...Mae Sai...Thailand's Northermost
From Chiang Saen, we arrived at Mae Sai at 1445. We parked the vehicle in the town centre and took a walk around the town. Did some shopping here as well. There is a lot of commerce happening here. A very busy town with lots of children being exploited ...
8th destination....Back to Mae Sai
... Baht and we finally settled for 250 Baht. What a big difference. There is also a lot of locally grown strawberries and Apples sold in Mae Sai, but I guess its the end of the season and now with the summer setting in, the season is moving into Durians, ...