Wipanan Mansion
Travel Blogs from Chiang Mai
Thailand at last!
Cute flight on Bangkok airways in half-occupied plane with small breakfast and cute comedy TV entertainment.Arrival at Chiang Mai was even more slick - a poster with our names on to go to International bag collection and we were guided through the airport to that, past more Orchid gardenettes. Sandy's bag got pulled aside again for scanning - does …
Trek through Northern Thailand
... cream on the skin. We were the only ones there, so we had the place to ourselves to enjoy and relax. At some point, it started to rain; this was a signal for us to leave and begin our hike to a village. As we hiked through the jungle, the rain kept on torrential downpour-style, but hiking under the leaves and bamboo we were somewhat shielded. The ground was quite soft and the guides as well as Michael ended up with some leaches getting stuck to their feet. ...
Chiang Mai
... and holes in the walls. It was ok
though - anything that isn't particularly comfortable we put down as a good
experience. We then went to greet the elephants. There were about 10 elephants
all female apart from one male. The first thing we noticed was that each
elephant was chained to the ground which unsettled us a little and we
questioned whether we had done the right thing coming here. We fed the
elephants corn plants which disappeared in a flash - they ...
The Case Of The Vanishing Necklace
... already so I was so grateful. I spent a few days with Gemma and her friend Mark who was visiting. We went out quite a bit and I spent some time at their hotel using the infinity pool they had there. They were heading to the islands for Halloween full moon which I was invited to join them on but in the end I reluctantly said no because they were only going for 2 days. ...
Home Sweet Home.......
... br>
But.......one other thing about sleeping. If you don't mind the Chiang Mai in your bedroom at night, you'll do fine. We love keeping our deck doors open for the breeze, but it basically sounds like a 747 is landing on your pillow - road noise (payback for owning a Harley), bar singing (naturally, not with any sense of pitch), dogs, dogs, dogs (oh my gosh, dogs are everywhere on the streets here and when the temple bells ring, which is pretty often, ...