Bor Sang located on highway 1006 that heads east from Chiang Mai seems to be a typical sleepy rural village that tour buses usually stop just for a while for tourists to take a short glimpse of two- storey wooden houses and how to make umbrellas from Sa paper. But if you notice, the hidden thing along the tiny lanes is those villagers who h...

 Ich bin gerade in Pai (Eintrag kommt noch) und hab festgestellt, dass mein Text nicht hochgeladen wurde. Deshalb hier nochmal die Kurzfassung: 31.10. - 2.11. : Trecking Schon beim ersten Zwischenstopp nach ca.1h war klar, dass ich eine besondere Gruppe hatte. Denn als erstes wurde festgestellt, dass alle einen Kater hatten und dann eine Ru...

Our day began with another scooter rental to once again enjoy "Scooter Madness."  Even though I swore I would never do this again, this was the best and most efficient way to see two of the remaining sights located outside of the city.  Wat Doi Suthep sits on a mountainside overlooking Chiang Mai.  Boasting spectacular v...

So the Chiang Mai Flower Festival was really cool. I asked at the front desk and got general directions but the woman said it was really far. I'm always skeptical when they say things like that because my version of far and theirs might be different. Anyway, I took off walking in the general direction and was basically lost until I arrived an ho...

I showered and finished packing then headed off to find a decent cup of joe before taking off on my trek.  I grabbed a delicious brownie at Hopf Cafe across the road from Eagle House 2.  Damn, I can still taste it three days later while writing this! At 9:30 we piled into a pickup truck and headed out of Chiang Mai.  In our group ...

Koh Tao - Chiang Mai: - Ferry from Koh Tao to Koh Samui (4 hours) stayed overnight at quiet northern end of Chaweng beach. - Flew from Koh Samui Airport (bit like a shack with runways) to new airport in Bangkok which is HUGE and a beautifully constructed building of glass and metal frames. Despite its size, there were not many planes around - we...

Flew to Chiang Mai this morning. Our hotel organised a tour of various factories and shops for us so it was an afternoon spent trying not to spend too much money. Visited a silk factory where they do everything from growing the worms to weaving the fabrics. We also visited the jade factory, the lacquer factory, the gem factory, umbrella factory,...

Chiang Mai has over 300 Buddhist temples (called "wats" in Thai)and we hired a driver today to take us on a tour of them. These structures are very intersting, older than the cathedrals of South America and in an amazing state of preservation. I'd like to pretend that my memory is so excellent that I am able to recount the following information ...

After overnight trip on a cool train with fold-down bunk beds, we arrived in Chiang Mai. Spent two days trekking in the hills, and stayed overnight in a hut with a hill tribe family. They smoke opium for entertainment and have roosters who think 3.47am is dawn. We also hitched a lift on an elephant - which decided racing up vertical rocky embank...

Songkhran After the trek we headed back to Chiang Mai for the water festival (13th- 15th April). The journey back was very wet as we got drenched in the back of the truck from both sides of the road mostly by children throwing water all over us (aided by our driver who kept slowing down for the children to soak us i might add!!!). This was a tas...