Art Ann Hotel Chiang Rai
5 Sankhong Luang Rd. Muang District Chiang Rai, Thailand
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The Journey to Laos begins!
So we set off to Chiang Rai this morning, in luckily, a paid tuk tuk by our hotel. After arriving at the bus station we discovered that the bus we wanted to be on left at 10:45, in 15 minutes time. This would usually be fine except there was only one bus company that went there and there was the biggest and slowest queue ever.
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Kerst in Chiang Rai met een floriade
... Rond 18 uur weer terug.
Om 20 uur ga ik naar de nightmarket, nog geen 5 minuten van mijn guesthouse en eet daar met een pilsje erbij. Daarna bezoek ik de enige gaybar in town; ik ben de enige klant, maar het is gemoedelijk en relax. Daarna terug naar mijn guesthouse om mijn reisverslag te maken.
Mijn collega's zijn tussen kerst en nieuwjaar vrij, maar een vakantieganger is 7 x 24 uur in touw.
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Exploring the Golden Triangle
... as it turns out, they did. That evening we decided to go catch a movie at the mall. In Thailand they do a cool thing where just before the movie starts they show a short video clip about the king. its just a small montage of things he's done etc but every body had to stand for the whole thing. They take their royalty really seriously here! to the point where bad things could happen to you if say anything against them!. was pretty ...
Chiang Rai: The Green and Golden Triangles
... behind plexiglass. Also on one side of the compound is a workshop—the artist is also giving back by training students at the local art school. Here, they were pasting rhino horned beetles onto bamboo and hanging them in the eaves of the building, or carving large totem like stele to do God knows what. So really, though different in materials and stated purpose, I really think the White Temple and Black House are primarily monuments to the artists, with all ...
The Best Temple And The Best Toilet
On our way to Chiang Kong we stopped at a temple in Chiang Rai. It was called the white temple so I'm sure you get the jist of what the main aesthetics were for the structure. On closer inspection when I walked around the temple there were stone white hands coming out of the ground and lifting stone statues up. I think it was some offering to the underworld as there were lots of demonic faces around some of the parts of the site. There ...


