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Bamboo Saxophones, Night Market, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Bamboo Saxophones

A travel blog entry by jawad

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My tour of guesthouses and hostels in and around the old city did not inspire me enough to move. Most of the more popular places were a little run down and I think where I currently am is possibly the nicest. Perhaps sleeping on a very hard mattress ...

Anyone for crickets?, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Anyone for crickets?

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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Good Egg!, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Good Egg!

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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Everything is O.K., Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Everything is O.K.

A travel blog entry by donstump1

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... safety we thought that we would send a Travelpod this morning. Everything is fine with us. We are somewhat stuck in Chiang Mai, which is at the far north of Thailand near the border. Our hotel room is on the 20th floor and we felt two quakes that made the ...

Start to border Crossing, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Start to border Crossing

A travel blog entry by canaussie

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Everything From Elephants 2 Spas to trains, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Everything From Elephants 2 Spas to trains

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny

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... Thai dishes, from pork and noodle soup to roast duck in a red curry sauce. It was really good fun, probably the highlight of Chiang Mai (after the Spa of course). You even get a cookery book to take home with you. Fab. This entry is nearly ...

Hi everyone arn here we are still enjoying ..., Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Hi everyone arn here we are still enjoying ...

A travel blog entry by worldismycanvas

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Hi everyone, Arn here. We are still enjoying ourselves in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand and I have been thoroughly enjoying Jayne practicing Thai massage on me ... the head and hand massages are awesome. She finished her lessons on Wednesday and her ...

Elephant Trekking, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Elephant Trekking

A travel blog entry by shanewilson

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... bargain price of 700 baht ($23). For this price, I visited two local tribal villages, toured around the south-west of Chiang Mai (a beautiful region rich with bamboo huts, vegetable paddocks and farmers etc.), steered my own bamboo raft (with the help ...

This week I took a vacation from my vacation, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

This week I took a vacation from my vacation

A travel blog entry by suzettesp

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... of constant travel in Asia. I haven't even been thinking about what I wanted to do next, or what there is to do in Chiang Mai. I guess I needed a little time off from my trip.  It's about the three month mark that I've been on the road, ...

Ahhh...relaxed and kicking back in Chiangmai, Chiangmai, Thailand travel blog

Ahhh...relaxed and kicking back in Chiangmai

A travel blog entry by donstump1

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... that we have been, religion is such a huge part of daily life and there are signs of worship everywhere. Katmandu and Thailand being the most obvious. Most of the sites besides the scenery are based on historical religious sites. Here the temples are ...

Kanjana Home Cookery School, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Kanjana Home Cookery School

A travel blog entry by rachel_john

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... food tastes just as good when we are back home. THE RECIPES: (Kanajana Thai Food Restaurant, 7/2 Ratchadamnoen Rd, Soi 5, Chiang Mai 5000. Tel (053) 418368 SWEET GREEN CURRY WITH CHICKEN A) CURRY PASTE 1/2 tblsp coriander seeds 1/8 tblsp cumin ...

Curry and Spice, Oh my!!, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Curry and Spice, Oh my!!

A travel blog entry by myjob

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MC and I started our Day off at the Organic Thai cooking Farm. We began by visiting the local farmers market and learning about our ingredients. I have to say, i have a new found appreciation for Thai cooking, especially the curry paste. It took me 15 ...

Tour de Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Tour de Thailand

A travel blog entry by alasdairm

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... 's main attraction is to go stomping or trekking through the mountains to observe the region's traditional hill tribe villages with Chiang Mai being something of the main launch point for this with almost every travel agency, restaurant, shop. guesthouse ...

Laos Airlines AGAIN!! Are we crazy?!?, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Laos Airlines AGAIN!! Are we crazy?!?

A travel blog entry by vickersontour

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... dip, but even she was having none if it. We took a walk around the top part of the city and found ourselves a bar called Chiang Mai Saloon which had free internet. So we stopped off for a couple of swift ones whilst Lorna caught up on emails. This place ...

Walk around town preparing for trekking tomorrow, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Walk around town preparing for trekking tomorrow

A travel blog entry by vickersontour

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... ladyboys crotch), we went across the road to visit Wat Pra Singh. This is probably the most impressive temple we have seen in Chiang Mai. After the temple we went to pick up our tubing photos. Unfortunately only about 12 came out and even they were very ...

Finding Religion, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Finding Religion

A travel blog entry by oriolesman

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...  in this county -- a faith as powerful and pervasive as Buddhism itself. That's right....I'm talking about shopping. Here in Chiang Mai, the Thai people have found religion.  And God is carrying a Motorola phone and wearing ...

Kommed, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Kommed

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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Welcome to the Jungle, North of Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Welcome to the Jungle

A travel blog entry by alasdairm

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... Canadian, Aussies and a Kiwi and our driver having a mullet we got off to a great start. After a few hours drive north of Chiang Mai we arrived at the start of the trek where we filled up on lunch first under a bamboo covered shelter with enough insect ...

I'm falling in love with Chiang Mai..., Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

I'm falling in love with Chiang Mai...

A travel blog entry by suzettesp

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I love this town.  I've decided that just like Ubud in Indonesia, this is another place I need to come back to.  I want to spend a good length of time here.  For the past week (June 22 - 28) I've been living like a local.  Shopping ...

Hot springs, Caves, Tigers and Silk OH MY!!, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Hot springs, Caves, Tigers and Silk OH MY!!

A travel blog entry by myjob

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... country side. In the send, we saved a fourtune on overpriced tours. Hot Springs - Kamphaeng We traveled 1hr east of Chiang Mai, through the mountains and discovered Kamphaeng. Kamphaeng is a natural hot source snuggle in the mountain side. Before ...

Chiang Mai, re-re-visited, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Chiang Mai, re-re-visited

A travel blog entry by mimmik

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Just wrapping up yet another month here in Chiang Mai. It's practically my home way from home now! Have been pretty busy and had loads of laughs while doing a 3-week Thai massage course. Theoretically, I've learned levels 1-3 and we even did full 2-hour ...

Chiangers - treks and scooters galore, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Chiangers - treks and scooters galore

A travel blog entry by benandtrudie

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... had a pretty good day, been busy so haven't been on the Internet in the last couple of days. So... here's the rundown, arrived in Chiang Mai on Monday and stayed at a place called the White house - was ok but nothing flash. Ended up shifting to SK house ...

Chiang Mai - Seeing the difference you can make!, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Chiang Mai - Seeing the difference you can make!

A travel blog entry by duke_schewe

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... more than we'd have paid for one way on the sleeper train. The train was quickly forgotten once we arrived in Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai is Thailand's second largest city and a very lively and active city, especially after dark. We were thrilled with our ...

Elephants, rafts and two hurting feet, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Elephants, rafts and two hurting feet

A travel blog entry by wordsworths

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... , Glaciers in New Zealand and jungle in Thailand. We decided to add hill trekking to our list and booked on to a hill tribe trek in Chiang Mai. Being the wimps that we are we decided on (what we thought would be) the easier option and went for the 2 day, ...

Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Chiang Mai

A travel blog entry by roundtheworld

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... thinking 'what the hell kinda place is this????', but got a nice room with AC (VIP Hotel, you know -- $8.50/night). Chiang Mai really opens up at night! What fantastic and amazing markets! Apparently, the 'original Yunnanese trading caravans used to ...

A-wokkin' and a-walkin' - nearly, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

A-wokkin' and a-walkin' - nearly

A travel blog entry by dazzla

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Another one of those random traveller coincidences: I was sitting on the overnight train from Bangkok heading north (and just as well as I didn't go south!) when I bumped into an English guy I had met a couple of nights earlier. He's on one of those ...

Elephantastic in Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Elephantastic in Chiang Mai

A travel blog entry by you_know_zo

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... - elephants giving rides could have been given gentle training by one of the many kwan that really do love their elephants And that pretty much concludes our time in Chiang Mai... :) More of my elephant photos Tom's elephant photos Tom's ...

Chiang mai it seems that every bus journey ..., Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Chiang mai it seems that every bus journey ...

A travel blog entry by worldramblings

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... show degenerated into a "monkey rides bicycle/monkey plays basketball" type of thing - pitiful. Another day we haggled with a songthaew driver in Chiang Mai to take us up to Doi Suthep. This is a mountian 16 kms out of town with a big temple complex ...

Playing in Traffic, Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Playing in Traffic

A travel blog entry by jackie_n_james

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For those of you who have never played the game Frogger it is a seemingly easy game to understand until you have to do it in real life with crazed little thai people driving rundown tuktuk's, scooters and shiny Mitsubishi's coming from what seems ...

Find the Jade Buddha before the next full moon..., Chiang Mai, Thailand travel blog

Find the Jade Buddha before the next full moon...

A travel blog entry by technotrekker

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Locals say that Chiang Mai is the spiritual capital of Thailand, and that no trip to the 'Free Country' is complete without a pilgrimage to the capital of the north. With its hundreds of temples, its ancient layout within a moated central citadel and its ...

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