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Chiang Mai Slideshow
Chiang Mai
Travel Blogs from Chiang Mai, Thailand
Renting our first motorbike
This is a top pick! ... throwing off his balance! haha. Eventually we got a ride to our night bus and headed out on our way back to Bangkok; goodbye Chiang Mai it's been a blast! With our first stop of our trip done we are now pumped and our excitement renewed for the rest of ...
Motorbike outside of Town and 2nd Festival Night
This is a top pick! It was cool to cruise around Chiang Mai again, see things that were familiar yet had already changed a fair amount in two years. We ate some amazing Mexican food and wandered through markets that sold trinkets that are remarkably different than ...
The Graduate
This is a top pick! So I'm (not surprisingly) back in Chiang Mai. Just one more farang who keeps finding herself returning here again and again to take more courses. This time, it was to complete a 10-week massage course that I started back in October last year. It's a ...
Cruisey Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... it ended up being pretty good value considering the quality of food and the setting. Went to the spectacular mountain temple overlooking Chiang Mai, Doi Sutep, on a day trip. Shared the sangthaew ride up the mountain with an Italian/Thai couple; very nice ...
trecking in Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... about the evils of the Koasan cocktails...Thanks to Rachel (who hopefully is with her boyfriend now somewhere on a beach in Southern Thailand), Darren and Charlie for a great night out. Back to chang Mai, we arrived about 6.30 in the morning and went ...
In Thailand, again...
This is a top pick! ... then decided to go for it. I made a reservation for the 10th of April, right about the time we would be in Chiang Mai. I got a short email back saying that the elephant camp wasn't doing the course during the month of April because it was too ...
Update on the past few days
This is a top pick! ... got us and took us to her travel agency where we booked our train ticket and a place to stay for the first couple nights in Chiang Mai...with a pickup and breakfast (or so we were told). That was around noon and we had to wait till 7:30pm for our train ...
Northern Thailand - Water and bikes.
This is a top pick! ... left and right up the mountains and down into sharp hairpins. The scenery was beautiful a lot more forest than I'd thought, I'd heard northern Thailand was all deforested. It was the slash and burn season so our long range view was quite limited. It was a ...
Jungle treks are bad for your health
This is a top pick! Friday 26th September... Got back into Bangkok from Chiang Mai at 6am today having spent yet another 12 hours on a "luxury" bus driven by a psycho old man who stopped every hour for a smoke and decided to wake us up when we got back to Bangkok by ...
The day we stuffed our faces
This is a top pick! I love food. It is so delicious. Even better than eating it, however, is being able to cook it so you can eat it again. Enter Baan Thai Cooking School. We chose Baan Thai for a few very simple reasons: they were the least ...
Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... Written on April 4, 2005 in Bangkok Overview of Chiang Mai We were in Chiang Mai for four days. Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand. It didn't feel as hectic as Bangkok but still hectic enough to make scooter riding a bit exciting. ...
Hill tribe trek
This is a top pick! ... a night on the town with our treeing buddies. We decided to subject ourselves to a 3 day, 2 night hill tribe trek north of Chiang Mai and weren't too sure what to expect when we headed out with our group of 2 New Zealanders, 2 French, 2 American, 1 ...
The Waterfall Trek
This is a top pick! We signed up for a three-day "hill tribe trek" to get out into the countryside. It turned out to be quite an adventure. Too many of us were piled into an open truck with benches. We made a stop at a security station to register with ...
A Great Gift
This is a top pick! ... here I wondered what I was letting myself in for and more importantly if my legs would finally simply drop off. Driving over to Chiang Mai's University we found we couldn't play here due to a ping pong competition, which if in Bangkok I may have stuck ...
friendly Thais and mountain towns
This is a top pick! ... ride later we were in Chiang Mai. We got some late night Singha pitchers and some green curry and headed to bed. Chiang Mai is a little mountain oasis of about 1.5 million people and a good helping tourists. The mountains loom low and pensive around ...
Asia Adventures: Muay Thai, Rock climbing, treks..
This is a top pick! ... to enter the ring in front of a few hundred people. Shocking for the farang, but interesting nonetheless. Trekking the Hills of Chiang Mai: So they really like to cram a lot of activities into a short space around here. We literally scaled the side ...
Surviving Songkhran and Course Heaven
This is a top pick! ... in all its unedited glory, email me and I'll send ya a link to them. Back to the topic: I've had a great time in Chiang Mai so far! It's a groovy city with an old center within an actual moat--pretty nifty. And besides that, it's an incredibly easy ...
Chiang Mai
This is a top pick! ... all of them girls) looking for farang. Often you see aul fellas in these bars with thai girls. This is particularly noticable in Chiang Mai. So what did we do in Chiang Mai, well we stayed in Banana GH which sounds good in LP but it was a ...
Back to Basics.
This is a top pick! ... us to Crazy Horse buttress, a crag about 40 min. east of the city. I guess the motorbike journey would have to wait. Chiang Mai Rock Climbing Adventures is partly owned by an American named Josh. (also a M.O.T.T.) He runs a well organized shop, has ...
From temples to tigerkingdoms
This is a top pick! ... energy - exactly what I needed. And she makes her own yogurt which we ate in the evening. I stayed longer than planned in Chiang Mai. Thanya's place is a great location, in a small Soi behind the Wat Suan Dok. The Wat is not only home ...
Up north
This is a top pick! Sunday 21st September... Arrived in Chiang Mai at 6am today having spent yet another 12 hours on a "luxury" bus. Decided to sit at the back so all 3 of us could sit together which maybe wasnt the best plan as I'm sure it was far bumpier back there ...
Northern excursion
This is a top pick! By some miracle the taxi to take us to the overnight sleeper train arrived on time and so we got to the station very early....which was just as well as it took us some time to work out how this organised chaos worked. We managed to find our seats and ...
The Samoeng Grand Prix
This is a top pick! ... Valentino Rossi with a foot out technique on turns she took too fast. Not a good idea in sandals! We are staying in Chiang Mai for the Loy Kratong holidays and will fly down to Krabi on Friday. This place is packed. No vacancy anywhere, fireworks ...
Trekking with uncle nuu nuu
This is a top pick! ... boy sightings. They were everywhere, to be honest if i was out here on the pull there's no way i would try anything in Thailand, i just wouldn't ever be sure what i was letting myself into, sometimes its hard to tell (other times not quite so hard, i.e ...
Yeepingy Dingy
This is a top pick! ... 100 or more of these floating through the air. It looks like stars in the sky, which is good because the air pollution in Chiang Mai is like cream of diesel soup so you can't see the real stars anyway. For extra effect, many Khomphi have fountain ...
Suk sam wan ker!
This is a top pick! ... they drive a lot slower here and you don't get half the fumes so it was quite a pleasant trip and we saw lots of Chiang Mai that we wouldn't have otherwise seen even though we'd spent so long there. Chappie dropped us off and we headed for the entrance ...
Going 'home'
This is a top pick! ... , it has by far the best and the cheapest food of anywhere we've been. 28th - Boring travel stuff and an overnight train to Chiang Mai (again) 29th - Our old ladies were glad to see us again and gave us the amazing rate of 250 baht per day (less ...