Tha Ton, Thailand Travel Blogs

Day 97
Dec 20, 2006 (7 photos)

... I had a chat with the her and learned that she was desperate for more tourists to visit - despite being listed in the Lonely Planet she was finding times difficult. I liked Tha Ton but there was no question - we were moving along tomorrow.

Tha Ton (Our 3 month wedding anniversary! Awwww!)
Dec 10, 2004 (4 photos)

... was SUPERB! We got the bus to Fang heading over towards the North East as you'll see on the map and then took a songthaew to Tha Ton where we were hoping to get to in time to take to passenger boat to Chiang Rai but as it happened we got there too late so ...

Day 13
Jul 1, 2008

Day 13: Tha Ton (In thailand just north of Chiang Mai despite what the map pin shows!) Up at 8am (with hangover!) for the 3.5 hour local bus journey to Tha Ton. Again no air con. Arrived at the guesthouse which is on the riverside and had lunch looking ...

Tha Ton
Feb 1, 2009 (26 photos)

... where the river got a bit crazier. Overall, it was a very very very pleasant afternoon. I feel like this blog doesn't convey my enthusiasm for Tha Ton very well...must be because Chiang Rai pulled it all out of me...but seriously, Tha Ton=awesome. :)

Black Teeth and Long Neck Women
Jun 26, 2009 (8 photos)

... night in the cave many centuries ago, therefore, the cave was made into a temple.  We then traveled to the village of Tha Ton where we saw people of the Akha and Karen tribes.  Both tribes were refugees from Burma, who left their home country ...

Tho Tan - Karen long neck, big ears, black teeth
Feb 24, 2006 (10 photos)

Tha Ton hilltribe village in the middle of nowhere - 3 tribes - the Karen long necks, those with big ears and those with black teeth. All immigrants from Burma/China. Living on someones land so they are not allowed to leave without permission from the ...

Tha Ton
Jan 14, 2006 (5 photos)

Salimos de Chiang mai en uno de los autocares locales sin aire acondicionado con destino a Tha Ton. Emily nos habia dicho que era precioso y que habia un guesthouse al cual solo se podia acceder desde el rio, asi que decidimos probar esa parte de ...

Rosey and Slim's maekok river lodge
Oct 21, 2007

... from teaching to run a guesthouse owned by the company that Stu works for in the far north of Thailand, in the little town of Tha Ton, where the Meakok river flows across the Burmese border.  Despite Stu's hilariously aggressive and vocal  ...

Tha Ton
Feb 21, 2006

... and they are currently building a huge Chedi. The second day I crossed line. LITERALLY! I wanted to climb the highest mountains around Tha Ton so I started out on farm trails up one of the valleys. Eventually the trails ended and I had to bush blaze the ...

Cheap and quiet
Feb 26, 2002 (14 photos)

... found out we were continuing to Tha Ton so they offered to let us ride along for the 2.5 hour remaining drive.  In Tha Ton, we had a wonderful thatched bungalow and watched all the young monks play in the river.  We had dinner over looking the ...

A tour, Tha Ton and on - The middle of nowhere!
Oct 11, 2007 (8 photos)

... , Laos and Thailand border, yes at the next destination we can indeed gaze upon the river Mekong that divides Thailand from Laos. Wat Tha Ton, a hill with multiple religeous carving efforts on the way up. From the lap of a seated ...

Sawadee krap you may remember that i took a ...
Mar 1, 2002 (4 photos)

... worth visiting for that alone. Went to a place called Chiang Dao yesterday and visited some pretty cool caves & I am now in a Tha Ton. I think I will spend another day lazing around tomorrow (well it is Saturday after all), and then catch a boat, which ...