Imperial Mae Ping

An early morning flight into Chiang Rai and out again as quick as possible, to the Imperial hotel resort thingy in the Golden Triangle. If you push aside all the golden triangle kitsch - including the "U R Here" sign , its not a bad place to chill out ( ...

We meet and sign the waiver. Charles and Ann from Minneapolis, James and Crista from Melbourne with Ant, our guide, Jump, his intern assistant and Pansit, our driver. good quality Trek bikes. We did a 25 km flat cycle just to test us out. everyone seemed ...

  Kim's entry: 1/2/09 – Friday Well we had a pretty quite January 1st. We got up early and were hungry to we went out for what has become our usual breakfast of noodles or curry with rice. The food really is wonderful, I've learned it's just ...

The last day in Chiang Mai was pretty uneventful, we woke up, ate breakfast and headed to the airport.   Had a 20 minute foot massage and boarded the plane.  We flew Thai air.   As soon as we were off of the ground, lunch was ...

We had breakfast at the hotel and waited for the van to pick us up for the day's adventure.  Our fellow travelers included a 40 yr old Aussie, his 24 yr old Filipina girlfriend - he was just on the trip because he needed to cross the border to renew ...