Chiang Mai Resorts - Reviews and Rates

Today I wanted to take it pretty easy so I limited my activities to just one. I was going to take a half-day cooking class but I decided to sign up for a full-day cooking class tomorrow and go bungee jumping today. I've bungee jumped two times before: once in the Wisconsin Dells when I was 19 and once in Queenstown, New Zealand when I was 21. Th...

Where to begin... Having flown once in my life (when I was 12) I was a little nervous boarding the plane, especially while thunderstorms are blasting the airplane. We were delayed about an hour taking off, but after getting through the clouds we were fine.  The flight(s) were okay. The initial flight to Seoul, S. Korea was 15 hours. Around hour ...

Well, we made it to Chiang Mai safe and sound on Saturday night and dined on some fine Thai cuisine. Enjoyed it so much that we decided to take another cooking class...only this time it was in Thailand!! The cooking class was held at The Organic Farm Cooking School. It was just outside of the city on a lovely small farm. We were told that the ar...

We just returned from spending 3 days at the Elephant nature Park, which is located about 70 km outside of Chiang Mai (Northern Thailand). The park has been around for about 15 years, but recently has gained more notoriety after being featured in Reader's Digest. The founder of the park is a Thai woman named Lek, who is only about 4 foot 8, but ...

Wandering around the city to get our bearings and see the sights, we stumbled on a strange looking drumming competition, part of the Chiang Mai Arts and Culture Festival 2007! It's hard to say what the purpose was, except that it seemed the winner would be the one making the loudest noise. It was cool to watch for a while but it didn't seem like...

So having arrived in Thailand late Thursday night I spent my first day at Charlies school. As it was Children's Day they had no classes and celebrated being children with singing, dancing and playing games. The children in us were dragged up to join the teacher's relay..of which we won; a lip stick for me and compact foundation powder for Charli...

Wednesday 26th July - Saturday 29th July The quad biking or ATV's as they were called was such good fun, climbed some real steep inclines and got to the top of a mountain. Today we head to Tha Ton which is on other border with Burma, Guy has family friends here who have a luxury resort and have said we could stay for minimal cost. We have really...

Well our fall back to earth from Utopia was a wake up full of pollution, humidity, and noise. Chiang Mai had originally seemed like a haven away from Bangkok, however after our short sojourn to Pai, everything seemed to be going wrong. We hadn't made a reservation anywhere for our return as we didn't know how long wed be away. When our mini-bus ...

As I am writing this diary in retrospect I normally manage to remember everything I did on each day, but today I have to admit that I have no idea. I think I just lazed around the pool all day recovering from the bus and preparing for the trek tomorrow. I do remember meeting up with the guide for the trek, and the other members of our group. Loo...

Ahhh, I now write to you from the cool, peaceful breezes of Chiang Mai. Lauren, Chris, and I set out on Friday with the anticipation that Mooknadda would be picking us up at 1:00pm, taking us to the government office for our National Park work permits, sharing with us one last dinner in Bangkok, and leaving us safely on the train to Chiang Mai. ...