Chom View

... shape and size and open for the public to explore.  There are also some nice gardens in the area, and of course the view is spectacular.  Unfortunately, the haze was rather thick, so we couldn't see as far as one might be able to otherwise, but ...

... so warm since we've been here. We sat up there and got ourselves a hot chocolate each – but there wasn't any spectacular view from the top as I had expected, just a giant sign announcing that it was the highest point in Thailand, so we stopped at a ...

... nets overhead. This morning we hiked several more hours, taking a different route to get out. We had some good view, including a view of Thailands highest mountain. After a stop at another waterfall we came across ants swarming all over a tree. Our ...

... and the local Thai people (and sometimes military / police) attack, imprison, and often kill them. From the Thai point of view, they have enough people in poverty already without the 2 millions (current) refugees from Burma alone. As an example of one ...

... close them. It doesn't matter as no one else lives here and I have a large terrace some 50 Sq Ft in front of my room. The view is lovely, looking out at large coconut trees, the jungle and the rising sun and moon. At any one time I share this with a ...

... with us. As the meal progressed another relative of Dechens named Gerry turned up with a couple of friends with a supply of chom. As the evening temperature dropped the hot chom turned the evening into a very pleasant one and it was middnight before we ...

... valley, and when the river came into sight again, I noticed it was narrow and full of visible rock formations and nothing like the view from Nong Khai. Did I mention that once a year in October, a giant swimming serpent called the Naga or Piyanah, spits a ...

... There was already a bowl of soup at each place. Alison couldn't see the princess but a few minutes later we had a clear view when many policemen appeared around a single woman of around thirty, one carrying an umbrella over her head, there was no umbrella ...

... of the way up the 300+ steps on the hillside, we were forced to pay 20,000 kip each to continue passage.  Wat Chom Si, with its gilded stupa adorning the peak of the hill and visible from town, was not particularly of interest.  However, the ...

... meticulously. Therefore I chose to head north to a scenic village called Nong Khiaw, head west to Muang Xai to visit the stupendous Chom Ong cave system and then take a painful west to east journey to get to the Vietnamese border. Due to the horrible bus ...

... then we went on a train trip and learnt about the Death Railway - was really interesting. The Bridge was beautiful with an amazing view! A little scary walking along it! Gems and Spence made sure that Ames didnt go anywhere near the edge as she is the one ...

... we brought. The Mekong is the third largest in Asia and separates Laos and Thailand and the scenery around it is beautiful. Pak Chom is another small town that isn't visited very much by tourists so everywhere we went, people would shout, "farang, ...