Galare Guest House Chiang Mai

... hand. Then when it's ready, you let go and watch it float away. It goes up first, then follows an air current with hundreds of other lanterns. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. Trully amazing.<br> <br><br>Then, to our surprise, the Vice Governor was there watching the festivities with his family. He allowed us some time for one of our members to interview him about tourism. It's tough to follow a conversation that goes through an interpreter! It was ...

... were going to stay in Luang Prabang; after nearly forty-five minutes of fussing, we eventually settled on and booked one. This done, we headed east to the night bazaar. Our maps were deceptive because it took a good twenty minutes or more to finally reach it. We took the street a block south of Tha Pae gate on the east side of town, and after only walking for a minute realised that there was a not insignificant level of sleaze down this way. We saw a number of bars containing ...

... snacks and drinks (e.g. cakes, dumplings, sticky rice, fruit and espresso drinks, tea, juice and water), a movie playing on a big TV, kids' play area, free maps and gorgeous brochures about the destinations they serve, and plenty of chairs to lounge in. Southwest, America West, and Frontier have nothin' on Bangkok Air. Also, even on short 1-hour hops, you get drinks, honey roasted nuts, and a chicken sandwich with cucumber and tomato. I wish flying ...

... of paper, so there is no argument when you get there and the driver asks for 200B (US$5.70/£3.10) instead of the 20B (60¢/30p) you agreed on.By Car -- Avis has an office conveniently located at the airport (tel.05320-1798; www.avisthailand.com). Avis self-drive rental rates for Chiang Mai are the same as they are elsewhere in Thailand, from 2,500B and up (US$71/£38) for a ...

... a world away from Koh San road... full of Thais, open-rooftop bar, live music - awesome! I think I managed to stay out til about 4am - they carried on til about 6am - I feel so old!! <br>Then I flew back to Chiang Mai - got a cheap flight that was only a little bit more than the overnight train would have cost.... again Bangkok airways and their lush departure lounge! It was great flying in to Chiang Mai and flying over all these jungles and mountains.... oh and on the way ...

... I also spent a lot of time trying to decide whether to stay for Buddhist New Year in Chiang Mai - one of the most famous places &amp; therefore busiest &amp; most hectic - or whether to move on. I had a couple of beers with a bar owner who said that I should definately stay in Chiang Mai because if you go to Laos they not only throw water but coloured dye... that made up my mind, get me on the next slowboat!

... milk soup (tom kaa kai). My soup was not too spicy and was really very tasty. I like it better than a soup with coconut. I prefer coconut as a dessert. I learned that the lemon grass, kaffir and galangal are meant to flavour the soup and are not to be eaten, so leave them in your bowl. Everything that we cooked, we ate as we went along. We were never hungry! While that was cooling Bill learned how to make fried noodles Thai style aka Pad Thai (phat Thai) with the ...

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