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Chiang Mai Slideshow
Chiang Mai
Travel Blogs from Chiang Mai, Thailand
Cruising the Mountains
This is a top pick! Our only real plans for Chiang Mai were to visit the popular Wat on Doi Suthep. It's an important pilgrimage sight for Thais and the ride up into the mountains is beautiful. So we rented a motorbike for the day and headed out of ...
Would you like to go on a Trek?
This is a top pick! ... Road selling the wooden frogs that croak. You know, 1 month you're working on KSR, next month you back up in Chiang Mai weaving blankets in a "traditional" village. But I digress... All the Songthaews and mini-vans were charging about 50-70B ...
A Chatty Monk
This is a top pick! Once again we were in a town that Travis already knew. Having arrived in Chiang Mai early in the morning, we took our requisite post-overnight bus nap and then went wat hunting. Upon arriving at the city wall, we stopped for lunch, a ...
Scorpions and Strong Bananas
This is a top pick! After a breakfast of fruit and toast, we set off on another day of trekking. As we passed through the village Rambo showed us a plate of frogs. The night before he had acquired eels from the rice paddies. Hungry anyone? Our first ...
Day 91
This is a top pick! ... 's diner. We walked the long way home and got settled in a net cafe to catch up on emails etc. We'd heard good things about Chiang Mai's night market and headed there in the evening - loads and loads of street sellers, market stalls and a real buzz in the ...
Cooking Lessons in Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... ... at the back of my mind, I continue to remind myself that I have 3 rather large continents to cover in 12 months... Chiang Mai has turned out to be rather impressive... so many things to do. The town has many schools operating that offer courses ...
The Cook, The Trek, His Ladyboy and Her Scooter
This is a top pick! ... cafÈ for a lunch of plain noodles that was just plain unsatisfying. It was now time to set off back to Chiang Mai, via the highest point in Thailand, where a couple of immaculate temples sat. The highlight of the stop-off being the silver tiles on one ...
Jungle Trek
This is a top pick! Stay at JULIE's Guesthouse. This is my advice for Chiang Mai. Scott and I took the tip from Emma and booked into this place and it set the scene for a great 3 days. Its run by Stephen (German, Swedish?) and he knows exactly what backpackers want. We ...
Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... while we figured out some details for the next leg of our trip. We all reunited later in the afternoon for a trip to Chiang Mai's famous Sunday Night Market. The town closes off several blocks and the street becomes filled with a great mix of locals and ...
Brown Water Rafting
This is a top pick! ... . If anyone has it, please let me know. It's not something you can just find on Khao San Road. My experience this time in Chiang Mai has been a lot different from my last trip here almost 2 years ago. I've been here for 4 days already and no one has ...
Birthday Body Shots
This is a top pick! ... group of about 7 girls and a couple guys, I figured it was only my duty to introduce a fun way to drink tequila. Fortunately in Thailand, there is no shortage of limes, salt or bodies. As I was introducing the concept of a body shot to the group, Keely, ...
Chiang Mai Blues
This is a top pick! ... a burning fever and freezing cold chills, I finally went to my hospital in Bangkok. On the 13 hour train ride from Chiang Mai, I felt horrible with bone crushing pains and alternating fever and chills. I decided that I best get myself checked out when ...
Same Same, But Different
This is a top pick! ... good laughs, and a joke Andy has added to his collection and will surely tell you all when we gets home! Night Markets In Chiang Mai we also experienced the crazy night markets, on both the nights we were there - we're addicted to the bartering! ...
Relaxing after our adventure
This is a top pick! Today we had a lie in until 12 NOON!!! Recovery from last night was slow! Went for a bacon sandwich before heading to the booking agency to book a Thai Cooking Class for tomorrow! Yes, they have agreed to allow me into a kitchen!! Look out for further ...
Chef De Cuisine and then a long bus trip
This is a top pick! Today was Thai cooking day and then the bus to Bangkok. We got a Tuk-Tuk to the market where one of the chefs took us round the different stalls showing us the multitude of fruits and herbs that were available. It was quite interesting but I will never ...
Last two days of trekking
This is a top pick! ... we recognized what it was, Tens and Twos!! What a coincidence! Our guide who grew up in a hill tribe in Thailand and now lives in Chiang Mai tried to teach us our favourite card game from back home! haha. (We soon learn that pretty much everyone we play ...
Chiang Mai - Day 81
This is a top pick! Booked my ticket to Laos this morning, last possible day I can go before my Thai visa runs out. Will just make it to the border on time. Spent the day walking around the city. Went for an oil massage and generally chilled, by the way the masseur ...
I Need More Fun Tickets
This is a top pick! ... "Pai...Do Nothing". So I did. I had some rain as well so that limited doing too much of anything. Back in Chiang Mai, I took a Thai cooking class. Why, I'm not sure but I did learn two things...1.) how to buy a good egg and 2.) ...
Hanging out with the Tigers in Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! After spending 2 weeks in Chiang Rai with hardly any tourists, it was a bit of a shock when we got into Chiang Mai. All we saw was tourists. Its amazing how much we actually enjoy staying out of the tourist places. Its ok for a day or two but ...
Boys nights out in Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... James who we first met in India was really nice to see them again too. Aside from that its time to move on we have loved Chiang Mai its so nice to get away from all the groups of bucket drinking teenagers haha - next stop Singapore for the F1 - cannot ...
Laying with Tigers & visit to a long neck tribe
This is a top pick! Today was another action packed day of things to do - we headed off for the day with Marsha & Kurynn and our own private taxi - the plan for today...visit to see a new born baby elephant, head to tiger temple and to go and see a tribe of people with ...
Same Same But Indifferent
This is a top pick! ... afternoon but admitted defeat in feeling pretty indifferent for them after seeing countless numbers so far which is a shame really giving Chiang Mai's abundance of them. Finally booked a trek on a 2 day 1 night jaunt somewhere north of Pai which was ...
Day 93
This is a top pick! Wow it got cold last night. Only one blanket so half-way through the night I put my clothes back on and found another blanket - I never warmed up properly and stayed awake till first light. When that came I went outside to get some of its warming rays on ...
Thai Cooking Class!
This is a top pick! I always wanted to take a cooking class and they certainly have plenty of cooking classes in Thailand. So we decided to take one class. Nik seemed to pick all the hot and spicy dishes. But it all tasted so good. It was actually ...
Mahoot for a day and some elephant face sucking !
This is a top pick! Today we got to spend a day with elephants and learn to be a mahoot to learn how to command them and get on and off them. First we got to feed them and get to see the baby elephant which took great delight in sucking your cheeks haha - then it was time ...
Escape from Bangkok
This is a top pick! ... ridiculous time but we were here for an hour so I walked around like a zombie until it was time to go again. We were nearly at Chiang Mai when at 5:30 we stopped again only 10 minutes from the town! Getting back on board the bus I was met with the foul ...
Doing nothing for a change
This is a top pick! As I am writing this diary in retrospect I normally manage to remember everything I did on each day, but today I have to admit that I have no idea. I think I just lazed around the pool all day recovering from the bus and preparing for the trek ...
Wet, Wild and Wonderful Songkran
This is a top pick! ... we returned to the Cave Lodge sweaty and tired, it was the perfect ending to our day of adventures in northernThailand. We returned to Chiang Mai on April 9 rested and ready to eat. Before leaving, we had enrolled in an intensive five-day course at the ...
Jackie's internal cooling system? FAIL!!
This is a top pick! We left for our two night three day trek on Wednesday morning, it was an otherwise uneventful ride out of the city except for the person we saw who got hit by a car on his scooter (he was not wearing a helmet, none of the locals do), there was a lot of ...
Thai Cooking Class!
This is a top pick! Our cooking class was so great! Not just because of the food but also because we got to talk to and enjoy other backpackers. This was definitely our first exciting day of the trip. We started with a tour of a nearby market selling fresh produce and fruit ...