Chiang Mai Boutique Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Gotta make this quick. Me and Reid conspired, he is distracting mom and dad while I update you all. We escaped the 'peace and tranquility' of Luang Pragang and have had a great time in Chiang Mai. On Sat it was raining so we went to the mall. Had lunch, played some video games then we went to the main attraction...Night at the Museum 2. Now this...

OK Tighe and I are now in Chaing Mai which is in the Northern area of Thailand and to get here it was nothing short of a miracle ... and an tiring train ride ... let me explain why sometimes things are just supposed to be the way they are ... Yesterday as I last left off we went down to take a river taxi to the Grand Palace, which is where the K...

Catholocism does not have a monopoly on Kitsch! While here, we have gotten to see a hologrammed Monk , a Disco Buddha and what looked like Yoda in a temple in Leopard Print!! The Wat's (Buddhist Temples) are absolutely beautiful, but due to the sheer number become rather mundane. Chiang Mai alone has over 300, of which we think we saw about 50, ...

The evening train from Bangkok arrived right on time at 7:30 am. Not a bad trip, the sleeper cars are about the softest mattresses to be found in Thailand. Not to worry about such trivial matters, getting hotel..etc, etc, it is ELEPHANT RIDING DAY (and bamboo rafting day). I really cant think of too many other things that have been of more excit...

On Saturday I re-signed up for the trip to the Doi Inthanon National Park, and this time, I made it: awake and sober. I did, however, forget my camera. My group was 5 Polish people, a wonderful Egyptian-French couple, my guide "Molly" (not her Thai name) and her 12 year old sister, Year. Year and the French lady took pictures of me and both pro...

Yes, I'm still alive and kickin it in Chiang Mai. Been very very busy with yoga and rockclimbing and chilling on the rooftop. Went to Doi Suthep, the temple on the hill, or at least part of the way: no songthaew was willing to get me there for under 200B roundtrip and give me more than one hour once there, and I was going to spend all day there....

I apologize for the long delay in a new post. My mind and heart has been consumed with thoughts of the recent loss of two amazing ladies, Carol Kestenbaum and Nicole Schiffmam. Tragically these young lives were taken far too early. I would like to thank all the friends and family who reached out to me and my family during this difficult time. My...

After 5 long days in Bangkok, I picked up my passport (with my new Vietnamese visa) and train ticket and made my way to the Hualamphong train station on Tuesday night for my 10pm train to Chiang Mai. The station was far larger than I imagined it, housing 12 seperate tracks, a food court, ATM's and shower facilities. I confirmed my track number a...

Chiang Mai 02/01/2007 - 04/01/2007 Well our transportation from Kanchanaburi was an experience. Our first bus from Kan was supposed to take 1.5 hours but ended up taking 2.5 hours and 20 minutes of that was spent waiting outside a 7-11 store after pulling out of the bus station, which was strange but we figured maybe the driver was waiting for s...

Not too much new to report aside from another great day of climbing in Chiang Mai with my new friend Niamh. I managed to pull down a 6c, which translates to about a 5.11b in the states, so that made me feel good. Plus I was surrouned by French and French-Canadian people all day at the rock, so I heard a lot of French. Especially because Niamh sp...