El Sabado despues de una noxe terrorifica en un bus que tenia el asiento de hormigon, como mi entrecejo,jeje, y otras cuatro horas de minibus, por fin llegamos a Pai a encontrarnos con Ursu, tb estaban alli Alicia y Ana la francesa, asi q hicimos cuchipandi... El pueblo estaba muy bien pero eran las elecciones y todos los bares estaban cerraos, ...

We took an overnight bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. The bus pulled up at the travel agency's hotel for an hour or so and then we were off on a 3 day trek to Pai in the North. It was Luisa and I and a few other British people. The 1st day of our trek we rode elephants for the 1st leg. Our driver was having problems making our elephant go and kep...

One of the fun things we did here is take an all day "Learn to cook like a Thai" class. Since 1995 Tub Tim (he was not at the class) and his family have been teaching traditional Thai cooking from their teak wood house. You start out the morning with a local market trip, in which our teacher showed us what items we would need for the day. Then t...

We woke up at 8am, had shower and packed our rucksacks. went down for the guesthouse breakfast, the Thalpai Gate Guesthouse. We had banana pancakes and a cup of tea for 70bts. very filling. Bus picked us up at 9.30 with 2 couples in back, 1 from Israel, and other from France. very nice people, had lots of fun.drove and hour and half to start of ...

This place is truely crazy, I've been here a week and still trying to get used to the place. I started off in Bangkok with the pollution so bad the sky barely seems blue, the traffic is just at a standstill most of the time. I've seen the lady boys, the prostitutes on every corner and the numerous old men arm-in-arm with the 18 year old girlfrie...

So this weekend took me back to Chiang Mai with the plan to spend Saturday at the local climbing area. I had put up a notice two weeks ago at the climbing shop in Chiang Mai with the hopes that someone would contact me for some climbing. Wouldn't you know that an Irish girl named Niamh (pronounced Neeve) emailed me and asked if I wanted to go cl...

The Elephant Sanctuary Our main reason for travelling to Chiang Mai was that we had booked to spend time at the Elephant Nature Park just north of Chiang Mai. This place is not to be confused with the Elephant Conservation Park at Lampang, near Chiang Mai which also tries to help elephants. We had booked for three days and two nights on a holida...

Chiang Mai is a great place and the climate is just perfect, not overly humid like the south, but warm enough to have massages on the street at midnight. Spent my favourite day so far in the trip on a tour which combined elephant riding, ox and cart riding, bamboo rafting and visiting a hll tribe. Have totally fallen in love with elephants which...

Nach meinem kurzen, ca. 5 minütigen Aufenthalt in Burma letzten Freitag bin ich mit erfolgreich erworbenem Visum (und um 5 USD ärmer) wieder nach Thailand eingereist und habe mich sogleich auf den Weg nach Thaton gemacht. Das war gar nicht so leicht, da es nur einen einzigen Bus morgens um 7 Uhr gibt und es bereits nach 15 Uhr war. Also bestieg ...

Actually, it was probably the fast train. Once we got out of the Bangkok burbs, the only stops along the way were a few of the larger towns. It still took 11 hours. When I was here 20 years ago and travelling with Martin's sister, Heather, we took the overnight express bus to Chiang Mai. The problem was that, since it was night time, we didn't s...