Chiang Mai Inns - Reviews and Rates

We've been in Chiang Mai for a week now and are still enjoying it very much. It's such a mix of old and new together. Inside the moat are small, quaint streets where you can find anything from stunningly beautiful gold wats(temples) quaint little teak houses and miniature shops, and then outside the moat are the super deluxe shopping malls, and ...

Here's just a quick post to let you know that we are fine and very safe in northern Thailand. Thanks for your emails of concern regarding the protests against the government in Thailand that have closed the airports in Bangkok. This is the third country we've visited where the government faced such actions (Argentina and South Africa) during our...

We finally arrived somewhere familiar with Western people (we never thought we'd say that travelling). We stayed at Julie's, which is buzzing with travellers but nearer to leaving ended up not liking the place because of the staff and service. So much so I complained to Lonely Planet as it was their pick out of all their choices. Basically if yo...

Transport woes from Nepal were finally laid to rest when we arrived at Kathmandu Airport. Royal Nepal Airlines flight was running about 3 hours late, so we were incredibly grateful to be flying on Thai! Thai is divine and by comparison a model of efficiency. They start the flight with drinks and snacks, followed by gorgeous Thai food with wine -...

okay thisi s going to take SO LONG as i had some of the most eventful days in chiang mai. so we arrive in chiang mai in the early afternoon and my first priority is findign a jungle trek to start the next day, chiang mai is a very small city in the very north of thailand and it is surrounded by jungle, so jungle trekking is the point of call in ...

So, back in Chiang Mai, different guesthouse, this one entirely teak wood, entirely roasting inside. OUr fan merely wafts hot air around, which is obviously brilliant. Hannah is ill, same as i was, holly is too, the 'elephant girls'- people who came elephanting with us are too, and im not feeling too fablous. were meant to be catching our bus to...

After arriving in Bangkok we spent a very busy couple of days seeing the temples, Grand Palace, floating market, bridge over the River Kwae, cemetary. The food at Cabbages and Condoms was great, we also tried an Indian restaurant with great views of the city even though it was raining. We traveled to the ancient capital where we visited more tem...

Once we left the Gibbon Experience we were planning to cross the border into Thailand and make our way down to Bangkok as quickly as possible, but without reliable information about buses or trains we were pretty much in the lap of the Gods until we got across the Mekong. We waved goodbye to Andy, Ali, Hannah and Helen in the Gibbon Experience o...

Hello again, Well we finally did what we came to chiang mai to do and saw some hefalumps. First off we did a trek up to see some hill tribes (who to be honest didnt look that different than the city people - they all still wore trainers and jeans, and after another long minibus ride we arrived at the elephant er "farm"" and got down to business....

After 16 hours on an overnight train we arrived in Chiang Mai and got ourselves settled in a guest house where we stayed for the week. Chiang Mai was so calm and laid back compared to Bangkok and was a welcome change. The people were even more friendly, smiley and helpful (if that's possible)and we soon found ourselves winding down. We hired bic...