Chaing mai
Travel Blogs from Chaing mai, Thailand
Thailand 2
... - and yes - I got soaked again as the elephant doused herself down. With that done we were back into the truck to head back to Chaing Mai. We arrived just in time for me to have a quick shower, put some washing in and find a pub that was showing the GP ...
Chaing Mai
Chaing Mai was more of an adventure for my stomach than anything else. Although I was in Chaing Mai for 6 days mostly what I recall doing is eating. I feel like I am the only person to come to Thailand and gain weight. I did take ...
North Country Boy
So been here a coupe of days so far and very nice it is too. A bit like Bangkok but cleaner and less traffic and cheaper as well (not a sentence using great English that one). Lots of shopping to be done here, and budgets are being slightly broken ...
Trekking in Northern Thailand
... in Thailand. We have finally made it North and Graham and I could not be more pleased with the culture here. We began in Chaing Mai and the accomodations are sooo cheap. Well, not including our drinking habit. The second day we attended a Thai cooking ...
What more Wats
... they gave up all worldly goods. I also then spent a day going out to Don Soitep, a wat on the hillside overlooking Chaing Mai and the Royal Palace. The Royal palace is the winter residence of the Thai royals and fairly modern. It was ...
Elephants and rafts
Next day Chai said our hike was 'up and down'. This worried us as he was the master of the understatement. We were right to be worried! The pace was unrelenting, and involved several large hills. There were no breaks going up the hill, at the top ...
Chaing Mai
... to get there on the overnight train, but definately worth it! We met some really cool people, and Sylvia and Darius (just kiddin guys!!) Chaing Mai is lovely so much nicer than Bangkok, we went on a three day trek into the forest which was really fun, a ...
Dying in Chiang Mai!
... to upgrade our 'slow-boat' journey to a speed-boat journey, which takes one day less, in order to keep to our hectic schedule! This evening we take a short stroll around Chiang Mai, do some internet and have dinner in a quaint little Thai ...
sabai dee mai
al final encontre el centro de arte y cultura, paro era bastante pequeno y no me impresiono mucho, habian trozos interesantes por eso. tambien consegui encontrar el templo, y eso me impresiono mas...adamas habia un monje sentado que salude. Luego por la ...
The Lyons family
From Macau we flew to Chaing Mai , Thailand .Sofia and Paddy had kindly agreed to put us up for a week (Ruth worked with Sofia before she moved to Thailand to teach at an international school) Sofia and Paddy live on campus with there two lovely and ...
Walking to the airport is like watching water boil
... joint. After our very stressful morning we figured the only thing left to do was to go shopping where Molly had a dress tailor made. Chaing Mai is great so far and being back in the big city we're back to playing the game "count how many old white ...
Christmas to the New Year, no stopping!
(Continued from Previous Entry) To the northwest of Chiang Mai, rests a chilled out, artsy, musically inclined town by the name of Pai. My sights were set long ago on this destination, leaving many expectations. It blew the expectations out of the ...
Elephant Trekking
It's safe to say that elephants are now our favorite animals. Today we headed an hour north of Chaing Mai to spend the day riding elephants. We arrived at the camp to be greeted by a 20 day old elephant which right there stole our hearts. He just kinda ...
Remember when we cooked every meal in a wok?
... In Oz we had Dion to cook for us, and while it was great, it always seemed as if something was missing: the wok. We came in Thailand, sure to experience the culture, but to be honest, we came for the food...the food they cook in a wok. For two weeks Molly ...
Happy to be stuck in Chaing Mai
... minor" typo. Oh, and I forgot to include an oddity-of-the-week in the last message: Jen and I visited a temple in Chaing Mai. A monk was blessing some people who looked liked Thais. We avoided the ceremony as is recommended by most guide books. ...
The hazy lazy city of Chiang Mai
... out the local area and found myself in familiar unfamiliar territory. It was familiar in that it looked sounded and smelled of my Thailand last year and unfamiliar in that I had absolutely no idea where I was going... I was instatnly reminded of the first ...
Travels in Thailand
... that back in the summer we made friends with some Australian boating people called Annie and Liam. Well they have a place in Phuket, Thailand, and so rather than go back to Turkey for the winter we decided to pay them a visit! Before going to Phuket ...
Wondering around Chaing mai Again.
... the day on a pedal driven tuk tuk with a guide I do not remember the name of. He took me to all the good temples in chaing Mai old city ... Some Of them I had seen before and then proceeded to take to to some of the more tourist oriented shopping places. ...
Loy Kratong Festival
Some photos from the Loy Kratong Festival. The celebration begins on the full moon days and runs for a week.. it seemed. The Thais like to celabrate!! Lots of fireworks, feasting and parades. The celebration is about water and life. People make small ...
chaing mai
Sept 23rd Well now in Chang Mai after a coach journey from hell, my back hurts, the guy infront had his seat back the whole time and even with my piddly legs the blood wasnt getting there...the only option Thai Massage and when i say that I mean ...
chaing mai
... and he slowed our elephant for them to take the lead much to our vocal dislike. The thing the swedish girls forgot was that in thailand money talks and 50 baht (80p) later we turned the last bend and took first place!!! WINNERS!!!! good thing I'm not a ...
Falling for Chaing Mai
... far, truly wish I could stay longer. Been very busy, so much to tell, but will spare you every little detail. Overnight train to Chaing Mai from Thi-Lok was NOT fun. Sleeper car was full and while the chairs were decent, but let me paint you the ...
What carzy day!
... . You would sit on small boat and trade (buy) with the local people. Today I brought the overnight train to Chiang Mai (northern part of Thailand). Due to my stupidity, I wasn't realized I was almost late. But my lovely bagpack was still in ...
Chillin' in CHaing Mai
We really like Chaing Mai-it is a relaxed city and it feels great to be here. We arrived via a flight from Bangkok and quickly found a great guesthouse: Julie guesthouse. Take a look at their web site if you like-it has a really nice feel to it-nice ...
Trekking in Northern Thailand
... in a lovely guesthouse run by a Thai family who lived there as well, so it felt very homely. The main attractions of Chaing Mai are Thai cookery courses (not for us!) and trekking in the mountains which surround it. We booked through the guest house to ...
My Way
... it seems strange but after two weeks of eating Thai food for three meals a day we were sick of it. On our last night in Chaing Mai we couldn't bear to have another meal of noodles so we headed to La Gondola resturant where we dined next to the river. We ...
Chaing Mai Update
... right now. Yesterday I did a day of visiting some hilltribe villages, a very old cave and an orchid farm. The surrounding farmland in Chaing Mai is quite beautiful as are the people. I felt like I was back in Myanmar-the daily life is very basic. What ...
Mai, What a place!
... and remarkably good fish n' chips. Which brings us nicely onto highpoint number 1, the cookery course at the excitingly named 'Chaing Mai Thai Cookery School'. The school is run by Sompon Nabnian, a TV chef who is the Thai ...
May 19 - 25 after the trek was over we all ...
May 19 - 25 After the trek was over we all went out back in Chaing Mai for drinks and food. Didn't do much for the next few days apart from watch some movies and drive around town. The night market is very good here so i spent load of money buying new ...
Massage-Thai Style
... to a Thai massage. We walk in and the wee Thai ladies greet you-I am happy-for those of you who have been to Thailand you kow a Thai woman is about 5 feet tall and maybe 70 pounds dripping wet-how much damage can they do??......... First we changed in ...

