De Naga Chiang Mai

From one that travels to Chiang Mai several times a year on business at the elephant camps, there are MANY good places to stay in Chiang Mai but "where" is of course dependent on your budget and needs".   I can tell you one thing, just returned from ...

We flew from Bangkok to Chaing Mia and went to the Sunday ...

... really are a friendly race and I understand why it's called the land of smiles.  Perhaps my most memorable  experience of Chiang Mai (after the wonderful night food) is the massage I had on our last afternoon at the women's prison.  The ...

... we didn't find out about this place earlier or we would have loved to have done the volunteering. For anyone coing to Chiang Mai we would highly recommend the elephant nature park  (www.elephantnaturepark.org) they will sort transport for you ...

... spend a day with a group of rescued elephants tomorrow if we can book it. So far today we've moved hotels to a different one in Chiang Mai, also very nice. We'll probably not do much today but will try and get online tomorrow. The PC's in this hotel don't ...

... and some better pictures from Turkey that will be up shortly with some representative pics attached. Right now we are in Chiang Mai, Northen Thailand, after spending last night in Bangkok.  Hope everyone is doing well and we'll get some good ...

Today on our 18th wedding anniversary we went to the Patara Elephan ...

Similar to yesterday, we traveled about 1.5 hours to the mountains to play with some elephants.  This time though, we were typical tourists and took a 45-min ride through the rainforest on the elephants...it was pretty fun, although a little ...

Early start for a 90-minute drive to the Elephant Nature Park.  The Elephant Nature Park is unique from many of the other elephant attractions in that it is only a rescue and recovery habitat for elephants that have been saved from some of the ...