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San Pa Tong Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Pa Tong, Thailand
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Today I gave an elephant a bath
This is a top pick! Today was fantastic - definitely a highlight of Thailand! The Patara Elephant Sanctuary is about 30km SW of Chiang Mai. They are a small independently owned farm that takes in 'retired', unwanted, abused and abandoned Elephants and gives ...
Trekking adventure. Chapter one (of three)
Trekking to see the hill tribes is a big business in Thailand. Many tourists come to Chiang Mai to do two things: take a Thai cooking class and go trekking to see the hill tribes. The hill tribes are hidden in the mountains and have a rich and ...
Songkran in Chang-Mai/Koh Tao (again)
... a number of welfare programs and has his face on more than a few billboards sponsoring the most popular energy drinks in Thailand. I still don't understand why nobody was close to the stage, everyone just stood back and listened, which for the people ...
Mae Taeng River Trek
Everywhere you look in Chiang Mai, there are signs about trekking... tourism shops in the street, posters on the walls of the guesthouse, ads on sides of utes... Sime and I were hesitant to go on one - mostly because we were unsure about visiting hill ...
Chang Dao Cave
Exerpt from Jimmy's Travelpod: "Today, we did not get an early start as we planned, because we stayed out late at the movies. We did, however, take a bus out to Chang Dao to explore Chang Dao Cave. It was quite obvious that they don't get very many ...
Trekking is hard work!
... at work. Boon explained a bit about them. What I remember: they're originally from China, but moved to Laos, then scattered to Thailand & other countries; many of them have also been moved to the USA. This tribe is polygamous & up to 4 wives live with ...
Moving on ... a little bit
... need of a good fry up. Late morning we leave Chiangmai and strat to drive south east to Cliff & Tukta's house at San Pa Tong. We stop en-route at Ban Tawai a huge handicrafts village. There is some really nice stuff here as well as ...
A farang goes to Chiang Mai....
The journey started off with every good intention. I was to travel to Chiang Mai on the 7:50pm overnight train and arrived at the train station with plenty of time to spare. The people waiting for the train were mainly backpackers with a sprinkling of ...
Temples ...
Nice lie in this morning followed by a fried breakfast. Nice change after the early morning walks to the market for some fried bread things. Drive a few minutes up the road to the village temple. Just outside the entance is a huge well ...
Last visit to a hostel - Nong Tau
On Saturday we drove southwest back into the hills to visit another hostel called Nong Tau. We must have driven 45 minutes and it still seemed like we were in Chiang Mai. The city is very spread out. We turned right at Hot (yes, that's the name of a ...
Hiking through the hilltribes
... all inside one of the little huts drinking opium tea. The Phad Thai that we had for lunch was delicious, as usual. In Thailand they put lime, peanuts, and sugar on top of noodles. I don't like peanuts, but it was really good with the ...
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