S.K. Guest House Chiang Mai

The second leg of our trip brought us to Chiang Mai, a city in the northwest of Thailand. Chiang Mai was a much bigger city than I had expected. It's a fantastic spot for adventure tourism. If you can think of something outdoorsy, you can do it in Chiang Mai. We met up with one of my friends from USC who is studying in Bangkok and booked our first adventure... Our adventure started with an elephant show that was about as campy as you can imagine. The elephants danced, walked on two legs, pain...

For our last day in Chiang Mai, we decided to absorb our favorite part of the culture and learn how to cook the delicious food. Our course was taught at a little house outside of town. It was just the two of us with our instructor. We got to choose what we made, so we chose our favorite things: tofu spring rolls, banana spring rolls, phad thai, sweet and sour chicken, and sweet sticky rice with mango. Everything was delicious and surprisingly easy to make! I'm excited to make all this stuff w...

Well my journey from Kanchanaburi to Chiang Mai got off to the worst possible start when I arrived at the train station for the 1444 train to Bangkok, only to be told that the train was delayed by a minimum of 4 hours. So that meant I'd miss my connecting train. As this is nothing like the UK when it comes to public transport it was more a case of tough **** matey! So in that case I had to hot foot it across the town and get a bus again. Much like my bus journey to Kanchanaburi this was no ma...

After a 16 hour train ride, we arrived in Chiang Mai around 6:00 am eager to find a place to stay, nap, and shower. Unfortuantely, these tasks did not get accomplished until well after 10 am due to lack of room at the inn in one guesthouse and housekeeping at the other (and this didn't even include mint for pillow!). Once revived we took a leisurely walk around the city, visited some wats (Wat Chedi Luang was especially cool looking and seemed like something right out of an Indiana Jones movi...

Chiang Mai is an attractive spot that offers a tempting atmosphere for settling down. The old moated and walled city has a charming rhythm to it that would make anyone want to stay longer than planned. We have been using it as a base to recover from some unsettled stomachs, trying to eat as plainly as possible. This recovery regime has made our walk through the night market here extremely frustrating. The selection of food on offer is the widest and most exotic that we have encountered on our...

Catched the overnight bus from Bangkok and arrived in Chiang Mai early morning. Arrived at wir hotel (which looks nothing like da photos!) and have squashed a lot of fly type things around da waas o da hotel (da place is a bit o a dump). Arranged to go on quad bikes dis afternoon up north o Chiang Mai, hed to get a minibus for about 2 hours to get dare. Unfortunately hed to share the bus we 6 really annoyin Polish people. No offence but dey really are da rudest nation o people we hiv ever com...