Photo from Nan trip with my friends around 2 yeas ago.

I have been in Thailand for almost a week (with a trip into Burma), although it feels like longer. I am currently in Nan, in North east Thailand - a very remote part of the country. We havent seen a westerner in days. Certainly not in this town. In a rather sexy jeep, my travelling compadros and I are heading to The Pillars of Earth.... In Chian...

Hola a todos desde Nan, en la provincia mas al este de Thailandia, cerca de Laos. En Nan se esta' bien, hay un mercado nocturno que visitare' ahora y un clima amistoso, se ve que aqui el turista medio no llega. AH! Lo he entendido muy facilmente despues de las 6 hrs que ha tardado el bus en llevarme aqui, a 300km de Chiang Mai. Cada segundo el b...

The AT tour group started to really get to know one another on the first full day with a tour of Wat Po and the Grand Palace on the schedule, although i pulled out of this as i was feeling a bit under the weather (clearly too much adrenaline in Chiang Mai catching up with me) and so for me the trip proper started with an overnight train journey ...

What began as a conversation with John about Vegemite had turned into a multiday ride into rural Thailand near the city of Nan. Buses and trains don't usually get into the region we were to explore, therefore most traveller don't go. The area near Nan was once part of the Golden Triangle which was where opium poppies grew. Even until the 1980s, ...

The ferry was filthy...3 hours into the Gulf of Thailand we pull up at Koh Pang nan, infamous for the Full Moon Parties that occur once a month when the Buddhist holiday is not been observed. It is a fairly large island with an abundance of natural beauty, combined with hundreds of Westerners racing around and crashing rental motorbikes- it's t...

Between travelling and the internet service being down in Asia due to the earthquake in Tiawan, I am a bit behind with the travel logs. December 24, 2006 We rented a car through a local hotel from the owners, an elderly couple who did not speak a word of English. Jocke was drawing pictures of cars trying to indicate we wanted one that fit all th...

More Wat pictures for those of you who find it interesting.

December 23 We are now happily settled into Nan. The city of Nan is located about 8 hours north of Bangkok, in the province of Nan (province population 477,754). It borders Laos to the north and east and the result is there is a much more visible police presence here as illegal immigration is a bit of a problem. Yesterday we rented bicycles for ...

December 20, 2006 Well I goofed when I told you in my last entry we were off to Nan the following day...we actually had another full day in Chiang Mai with plans to attend Kaohom Cooking School. If you want to see the website it is: www.kaohom.com Driving into Kaohom was like entering a little paradise....the grounds were beautifully groomed and...