Villas in Chiang Mai

... a silk and also a wood making place. Beautiful furniture, etc. Tonight after dinner we go to the night market in Chiang Mai where they apparently have lots of handicraft things that you can seriously bargain for! Our hotel is embarrassingly nice - ...

... hecha con 9 palos de bambú. Diferente y único, pero nada sorprendente.   El domingo Sunday market; lo más lindo de Chiang Mai. Cierran las calles y miles de artesanos, mini restaurantes y masajistas ponen sus puestos. Lindas cosas y harta vida. ...

... lead another tour. We'll be leaving chiang mai on sunday nite 3 hours before Mogli returns fromt he trek and will truely miss him. if i have time at the end of my travels i'm even willing to make a special return to chiang mai just to visit with him ...

... passed a sign for Elephant rides and the conversation quickly turned to the various elephant trekking experiences the group had witnessed in Chiang Mai. The consensus being that elephant trips were a no-no. None of us could condone the conditions in which ...

... a smile...The Land of Smiles, they call it...even the names cause us to smile :) but back to Phuket...we flew there from Chiang Mai...I had a foot massage right at the gate, just minutes before boarding the plane (why can't we have massage places in our ...

FInally I have a bit of time to catch up on the blog - it's been a busy 4 weeks! We finished in Chiang Mai with a cookery course on an organic farm just North of the city - great fun doing a local market run in the morning then ploughing our way through a ...

... on the handlebars of motor bikes.  One of my personal favorites was a German-themed restaurant near the Night Bazaar in Chiang Mai, where the owner had decided to dress up his young Thai waitresses like St. Pauli girls from Bizarro-World as they ...

... , had a very civilised (and delicious) dinner at their new favorite street side stall and then jumped on the sleeper train to Chiang Mai. Had a fantastic lady-boy host/hostess running our cabin who very much liked to touch (fondle??!!) both Clare and I. ...

... not to be horrified by this strange person but he smiled at her so charmingly she did smile back.  A bit nerve-wracking as a parent to have so much uninvited attention. Good to be back in Chiang Mai where they are barely noticed.       ...

... sing I am leaving on a jet plant. The coffee he served was grown by his sister who runs a small coffee plantation north of Chiang Mai. It was really good and Jack even hinted that he needed a partner because he would like to export the coffee to America. ...

... thing. Piles of shredded leaves with low calory dressing is not it. We have one quite well known health establishment in Chiang Mai, always full of people sitting in chairs in yoga positions and sharing therapy tips. It substitutes creativity by a number ...

... de que se cultiva y se cocina aquí. Pero lo que a mí me mató de MHS, fueron los alrededores.  En Chiang Mai, como parte de los masivos trekking tours que se ofrecen por todos lados, te ofrecen también una visita a una tribu ...

... ! R: Normally, I am totally averse to Tuk Tuks - in BKK, they are total rip-offs, more expensive than taxis. But in Chiang Mai, the Sonthaews were the rip-off (the pick-ups with roofed back backs equipped with benches). Well we had opted for the cheap ...

... they rode away into the dust. Lek sat down beside me smoking a cigarette. He chatted about the political problems in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, shaking his head. "Vewwy bad for tourist!" I agreed. Who knew how it would affect the tourism once things got ...

... plant. This campus, along with the rest of Khon Kaen had a very special charm I've experienced in few places - in a nut shell - you feel connected. I leave for Chiang Mai tomorrow I cant wait to see what this city has to offer. Khon Kaen will be missed :( ...