Hotel in Mae Sai

... Baht and we finally settled for 250 Baht. What a big difference. There is also a lot of locally grown strawberries and Apples sold in Mae Sai, but I guess its the end of the season and now with the summer setting in, the season is moving into Durians, ...

... maybe. Only 3 km away so off we go. It was spot on. A great place just as advised. Thank you technology.  The Mae Sai River Resort was our choice for dinner... a little restaurant hanging on the edge of the river overlooking Burma. No English menu ...

... known as the Golden Triangle. It was rather interesting--but we all wished later that we had spent less time here, and more time in Mae Sai later. We drove to Mae Sai and had lunch at the restaurant in the Wang Thong Hotel. Above the reception desk was a ...

Day 14: Mae Sai / Chiang Rai We got up early and went to the border town of Mae Sai. This is in Thailand but is one point where you can cross into Myanmar (formerly called Burma). So we went across the border for 2 hours and went to a market and had a ...

... abuse.  Needless to say, this was a heavy week of learning and processing.  We took a 3 day trip North to Mae Sai which brushes against the Burmese boarder to learn about whats being done about these issues and to witness some first ...

... it is worth watching. She runs a drop in centre at Mae Sai where the street kids can come and eat lunch and relax and learn a little. Mae Sai has lots of street kids that come from Burma to beg in Thailand or on the bridge in between the 2 countries. I ...

... tour up the "Doi Thung" (1420m altitude) overlooking the border of Burma (Myanmar). Then crossed the finish line at Mae Sai around 5.00pm, sunset. We had deserved a beautiful hotel and rented an amazing room in a 5 star...for around 6 euros each ...

 From Chiang Rai we made it to Mae Sai which is located at the northern most part of Thailand on the Burma border.  Derrell needed to cross the border for his visa.  He has a 90 day visitor visa and he has to go out of country every 90 ...

... Laos and Thailand all meet) we then took a boat trip over to Laos then back for lunch. After lunch we then headed to the Mae Sai boarder for the visa stamp - there were another 2 Irish girls also doing the trip for the same reason as me. Unfortunately, ...

today we did a nice trek to chiang rai, mae sai, the northern most point of thailand, the burma border, and the golden traingle (where you can see laos, burma and thailand meeting together in a triangle formation via the mekong river (4500 kms long runs ...

My driver, Ben, drove me from Chiang Mai up through the hill villages to Mae Sae where we stayed overnight. The next morning we got up early and headed to the Golden Triangle. I went to the Royal Opium Museum, which was facinating and engaging. Then it ...

... sitio donde coger un autobus, y al cabo de dos horas y media paro en frente de nuestro hotel. Y encima nos regalo unos refrescos! Finalmente llegamos a Bangkok, para descubrir que no habia vuelos hasta ...

... ; Oakleys, even after confirming 3 times that this was the price, once I showed the colour of my money it was suddenly 10 fold. "Stop wasting my time old man." We found a hotel to crash for the night and got ourselves ready for country no.8 on our ...

... tribal village, the landscapes are beautiful in the country away from all the dirt and grim of the city. we eventually arrived back at our hotel at gone 9pm we nipped in for a pizza with 2 Irish girls we met on the trip and early night. Today we Visited ...

As I write this, I'm sitting in a cheap hotel room about 25 meters from Burma, or Myanmar, or whatever the military faction currently in charge is calling the country this week.  Technically I believe it's currently the Republic of the Union of ...

... woven cloth from them. They very happily allowed me to take some great pictures of them. I also stopped by a Burmese/Thai border town Mae Sai which was mostly just a market, but was interesting. I took a couple pictures there of the steps up to a temple ...

... up ($4 NZ), did some more shopping and then went to an internet cafe where we stayed till it closed. On arriving back to the hotel, we discovered the others were heading off for a night out on the town, we decided to have an early night and headed off ...

... at one of the busiest times of the year so there were no rooms left anywhere. We settled for staying a few miles up the road at Mae Haad. The next day we spent sunbathing and shopping at Sairee beach. In the evening we had planned to go to a pool party at ...