Pak Chiang Mai

Welcome to the travel blog of Karyn and Malcolm Elder. We are traveling throughout SE Asia for eight months this winter, in an attempt to prolong growing up for just a little bit more!! All our love to our friends and family back home.

Traveling for few months through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,Malaysia and Singapore.

Stories, photos, and videos from McNeill Mann and Kevin MacDonald's travels around Southeast Asia...and beyond!

My trip into the world .... How long the journey will take? Probably one year, maybe more - maybe less...

Hello everyone! We'll try and keep this site as up to date as possible so you can always find out where we are and what we are doing. love you all and see you in a year...

Chiang Mai is a much better place to start a trip through SE-Asia than Bangkok. We enjoyed the days and nights in the city and in the village we trekked up to.   Chiang Mai is a really cool and chilled ...

... official, we were onboard and across the river at Thailand immigration. It was at this point that I spotted a sign advertising a minivan to Chiang Mai, leaving at 6:30 pm, for 250 baht. It was a no-brainer. We would have easily spent that much in lodging ...

... Emerald Buddha) and the marble Phra Sri-la Buddha . Wat Kutao A short distance northeast of the White Elephant Monument in Chiang Mai's Chang Puak District stands perhaps the city's most unusual chedi, the 'watermelon stupa' of Wat Ku Tao. This ...

... nebo drstek, laosani prej pridavaj jatyrka. Thajskej larp pochazi z provincie Isan to je z vokoli Nam Tok a Kanachanburi. Tady sme na severu Chiang Mai provincie a ve vareni je tu spis vliv cinanu. Von mi povida..jo, larp!!Ten ja mam taky rad, ja ti ho ...

... to get to our "bungalow on stilts" to rest our overly exhausted bodies...Our hotel is rated as the number 1 hotel in Chiang Mai on TripAdvisor. When we reached the place, it was indeed like entering into paradise...what a beautiful and unique place it ...

Ik verlaat net met mijn koffer het guesthouse, komt de meneer, die gisteren het buskaartje naar Chiang Mai had verkocht, al kijken of ik nog naar de bushalte kom. Dit keer zit de bus vol met westerse toeristen. In Pak worden de lege plaatsen gevuld door ...

... seeing the different things on offer and a lot of locals were out enjoying themselves too. April 25 ======== After our busy schedule in Chiang Mai, we took our leave and headed for Bangkok - our last stop on our SE Asia tour. Stay tuned . . ...

... owner of our resort tell us this when we took the bus into town earlier today?? Lost in Chiang Mai: We got down at the last stop and tried to persuade the bus driver to drive ...

... deel van een supertoeristische en superdure negendaagse rondrit in het noorden van Thailand. Niet voor mij dus! Bijgevolg was ik dus een pak vroeger in Chiang Mai dan gepland en had ik een zee van tijd. Na al dat reizen was het nog eens tijd voor wat rust ...

... .  Saturday morning we get back on the boat and continue along until hitting Luang Prabang at roughly 3pm. I do love Chiang Mai and will always remember it as the place where I stopped hating Thailand, however the clock is ticking ...

... we spend on hotels, so naturally they do not have internet offered anymore.  We took an over night train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai (13 hours). Especially at the end when it began climbing into the mountains,  it was rather beautiful. The first ...

... if you are on your way somewhere, but never for pleasure dinning. One of my favorite restaurants in Chiangmai, Thailand is Chiang Mai Lan Ahan Reampae, or Chiangmai Floating Restaurant.  They now have two, one on Sankhampaeng Road and the other ...

... divoke. Prestoupili jsme z raftu na bambusove vory. to byla pohodicka. Jen co jsme pristali u brehu, nam byl servirovan obed. a pak klidna jizda zpet na ubytovani. Prvne co jsem udelala, po slozeni baglu v pokoji bylo samozrejme pivecko. opravdu ...