Chiang Rai Resorts - Reviews and Rates

Today, we traveled about an hour and a half to Huay Nam Som School which is connected to one of the other 2 children's centers. We ate lunch and then played games with the children there. It was so fun. We also did a drama and some songs as well. It began pouring rain as we left, so we had a very exciting tuk tuk (covered truck) ride back to the...

Returning back to chiang rai was pretty cool, it was nice to come back up to the place where I started, evewn if it was only one month later. Alex and i got a really nice room with AC, TV and DVD for an absolute steal, as well as renting a ped to bust round Chiang rai on.

We decided to go back up to the orphange and help out for a few da...

Barnaby and his friends travelled to Chiang Rai, on a Green Bus (very luxurious). Barnaby nicknamed the bus the Carlsberg bus, as if Carlsberg made buses..... They were collected in a pick-up and taken into the jungle to stay with the Akha Hill Tribe.

Another feature of Anantara - which I thought deserved its own special post - was the utterly brilliant restaurant, Sala Mae Nam. Housed in a triple-height traditional Siamese pavilion with a commanding view of the Golden Triangle it could have served cold noodles in a bowl and we would have liked it. Thankfully, they have a chef who specialise...

Monday 19th May Today we had to get up extremely early as we are off to the Golden Triangle/Chiang Rai direction. Our minibus came to fetch us at 7 am and there were only 6 adults on this tour which was great. Our first stop was at the Hot Springs where we had a tea/toilet break and walk around. Back into our minibus and it took some time to arr...

So we stop over for lunch at a restaurant called Cabbages & Condoms. It's a not for profit that works on People and Family Development.... and serves good Thai food. There's also a hill tribe museum that describes the 8 or 9 tribes that live in the mountains of Thailand and their migration history. The largest tribe is called the Karen and there...

05/11, Huay Xai, Laos: It has been an interesting, if somewhat rushed, trip from China through Laos, cutting across the North-Western section to Thailand. Huay Xai, being the port of entry for tourists overland from Thailand, is filled with small hotels, all relatively expensive (50000 Kip, = about L3-50), although some good value, considering w...