Doi Tung Lodge Chiang Rai
Doi Tung, Tambon Mae Fah Luang, Amphoe Mae Chan Chiang Rai, Thailand
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Can't be assed making a title for this
... it was pretty cool passing through all these little towns on the way.
This is the village where one of my friends from Florida works, so i'm staying with him for a week or so. The resort he works at is unbelievable!! Its set right on the river in a valley, so its surrounded by mountains! Its absolutely beautiful here! There's two sides to the resort here. One is just an ordinary hotel resort and the other is an outdoor ...
Mae Salong: stacking it on the Burmese border
... The buses we caught were flash, and the roads were so smooth. It was only the second time since leaving Oman that we have felt real roads again. Heavenly!
Mae Salong is located at 2000m above sea level, so was actually quite cold. We never would have imagined that Thailand could possibly be cold, but it was! In fact, it was freezing and we even had to unpack all of our winter clothes from the bottom of our packs. The town was tiny, consisting only of about ...
Other north Thailand town
... in this country. The Wat Rong Khun or white temple outside town is an ongoing project (supposed to be finished in 2070) lead by a local artist. It has got some really strange sculptures around and probably the cleanest and most luxurious public toilets. The building where the toilets are is golden colour and you have to use the slippers provided to get in. We are now about to go back to Bangkok for a quick transfer to Kanchanaburi hoping the flood will not stop us in ...
A Bad Day in Chiang Rai!
... later hop out at the white temple – no charge, weird system and 40 minutes out of the way but hey we are here!
The temple is huge, white and silver and massively gaurdy. Outside there are plaster heads hanging in the trees and arms coming up through the ground. Inside is a fake monk, like Madame Tussands, and weird cartoon paintings that are sort of religious and then they put in George Bush and Bin Laden on a rocket, or superman or ...
Fabulous and Fabled sights in Thailand
... communicate with other non native speakers. How true that is! English is used as the common language here and people from the different Asian countries seem to understand each others' English, but we can't, not sure why.
Anyway, everything became clear eventually when we arrived at a large entertainment park that housed all the different shows and a replica Thai village. I wandered about for a while looking for the Rose Garden and then managed to embarrass myself by asking ...



