Dusit Chiang Mai

Arrived to enjoy Yi Peng Loy Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai. Fireworks, firecrackers and sky lanterns (Khom Fai) being released everywhere. A lot to do outside of the city. Wish I could have stayed here longer. ...

... people from our tour are staying on to travel the south and we will meet the new 6 people in our group tomorrow! We are planning to relax tomorrow and hopefully will go to see Dusit park! We are sad to leave Chaing Mai as we liked it alot! Sabina and ...

... which was only about 20 minutes away and got there quite early. We checked our baggage in and then decided to share a little burger, fries and coke and use the free internet whilst waiting for our flight. Bye bye Chiang Mai you have been so good to ...

We got to Chiang Mai about 9am and the train station was full of people trying to give us a tuk tuk, taxi or mini van ride. 200 baht. We ended up getting one for 150. We arrived at our hotel and were straight away impressed. The foyer is gorgeous high ...

... of wines and a beer. After getting our moneys worth we headed out to pick up our laundry which we got washed on arrival to Chiang Mai at $4 for all our washing I am seriously considering retiring in Thailand. On our way back to the hotel we also did some ...

From Pai we decided to take a local bus back to Chiang Mai where we spent couple of hours at the bus station waiting for the next bus to Chiang Rai. At first glance what arrived was rather "a good looking bus", ...

... 22:30 uk time - so forget the jet lag! Picked up at 8.30 in lovely little bus. Noi gave us the guided tour of Chaing Mai, we went to pick up the fruit for the elephants, but someone had been before. So goody no heavy lifting, they make you work for your ...

... ! we awoke early in the morning and immediately we were on a mission for coffee and nice walk. We wanted to get to Dusit park for some Thai Chi,  before the chaos of the Bangkok streets started buzzing. We soon ...

... Empress Hotel.  When we got to the hotel we had about 10 minutes until we were due to head out in Songtails to the dusit temple. The Songtails were like 8 seater air conditioned vans and ours even had leather seats. The road was very windy to the ...

On Monday we went from the prison massage in the morning to our 5 star spa in our hotel in the afternoon for a massage ---- since it is so reasonable we went all out for a couples Warm Ginger Massage. Kevin chose the energizing oil and I chose balancing ...

Just got here and waiting for our room to be ready.  Need showers and a little sleep then out and about this afternoon - maybe a river trip and then the night market.  Then in the morning it's off to see Helen's beloved elephants.  ...

So we got up early again at 6 and headed down and had breakfast. We had a bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon. Then we had singapore noodles, fried rice, fruit and tea. With both of us feeling better after yesterday we were looking forward to doing ...

... to get back to the original shape. I have since omitted monkeys from any of our sight seeing.  So we stayed in Chiang Mai for quite a while. A visit to their zoo was much more rewarding than our visit to Dusit Zoo in Bangkok. The animals certainly ...

... fact we were now skint). After walking the 306 steps to the peak we were treated to fantastic views over the city of Chiang Mai. The temple was admittedly impressive with an exquisite copper plated chedi topped with a 5 tier golden umbrella, what let the ...

... plan is to fly into Bangkok, the capital and center of Thailand, and then make our way south to Ko Pha Ngan, back north to Chiang Mai, and finally finishing the trip back in Bangkok. In between Bangkok and Chiang Mai we plan to visit Phuket, Krabi, Ko Phi ...

... , there are other places in Thailand that are top of our list to visit for next time, we really want to visit Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, and maybe somewhere like Krabi ... so hopefully I'll be blogging about these places in the not too distant ...