Wiang Inn

... my last journal entry and I was happy to get it taken care of. We changed hotels to a very nice hotel just a block away - the Wiang Inn - very modern, no charm, but all we had to do was walk outside for charm. What a welcome respite it was! Bravo! ...

... road to pick up the car from Polsak car rent, where they were renting it from.  He is on Phaholiothin Rd opposite the Wiang Inn Hotel. Oh and in Chiang Mai I stayed at Lanna Thai Guesthouse as usual which is close to the night bazaar, cheap and ...

... also saw the White Temple, it is absolutely stunning. Our first night here we stayed in a nice hotel which was a treat (Wiang Inn Hotel).  On Wednesday we headed to Mae Sai and then across the border to Myanmar. If we were coming home we ...

... know that both those accommodations exist, and we found a few more along the way. Cabbages and Condoms have an Inn and restaurant about 10 kms on from Wiang Pa Pao, they advertise rooms on their boards but not on their website. A few kms down the road ...

After a filling breakfast I decided to forgo the planned city tour of Bangkok (how many times can I really visit the Grand Palace, Wat po etc??) and see a bit more of the day to day life around the area of our hotel so off I wandered and came across Wat ...

Another bus journey, another city (all be it a small one.) We managed, more by flukery than design, to catch the VIP bus up to Chiang Rai, what a dream...  this bus only had 2 stops, one to pick us up and one to throw us off. It had big comfy chairs ...

Drive to Mae ...

Stop at Chiang Dao to see elephants. Visit Meo tribe village. Boat trip down Mae Kok ...

Arriving in Bangkok after Hong Kong was a bit of a anti-climax. Not because there's anything wrong with the city but because for us the city didn't really 'do it' for us. We say this because we had experienced the ancient temples whilst in Kathmandu and ...