 | All creatures great and small
2009-10-31, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: pinners | | When we left the internet cafe last time we were walking back to our hotel for a quick shower when we saw some westerners hanging outside the mobile 'deep fried bug stand', intrigued, we hung around t... |
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 | Chaing Mai - Festival Time
2009-11-01, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: mandhughes | | We arrived in Chiang Mai on the 1st of Nov after our 1 hour train journey from Bangkok, we were harassed (for a change) by tuk tuk drivers, then a nice women approached us and offered to take us in a ... |
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| The train journey from hell
2009-10-31, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: pinners | | Having arrived at Bangkok train station with plenty of time to spare we went to locate our train, obviously, in our heads we were wandering down the platform looking for something resembling the Hogwa... |
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 | Big city
2009-10-27, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: lotschurin | | Dear friends and family,
Not surprisingly, I have learned something. About the Thai to be more precise. Something quite distracting really, 'cause I am not so good at dealing with this weird custom... |
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 | Thai Community Service
2009-10-24, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: sbennetj3 | | One of the components of "Adventure Week" is community service. Our group visited a Lahu village for two days to help build a kitchen counter, build a new toilet, paint a building, and play with the ... |
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 | Thai Adventures
2009-10-25, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: sbennetj3 | | I accompanied a group of teachers and students from my school to Northern Thailand for "Adventure Week." I tried many things for the first time including rock climbing, tyrolean traversing, and zip l... |
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 | Chiang Mai.
2009-07-07, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: aarond | | After Bangkok we headed to Chiang Mai to do some adventure activites. It turned out raining the whole time we were there, although the hotel was very cool and the activites didn't need a lot of sunsh... |
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 | We are Thai Master Chefs!
2009-04-19, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: aimee | | Oh Yes! We are officially Thai Master Chefs. We did a cooking course which was a lot of fun. There were only four of us on the course so we got a lot of attention from the Master Chef himself and the ... |
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 | Chiang Mai...the sequel
2009-01-17, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: 2sultans | | After leaving a medium sized city between Chiang Mai and Bangkok, (called Phitsanolok) we headed for Chiang Mai. The brisk train ride in air conditioned cars was wonderful...nope, by brisk we mean 8 ... |
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 | Chiang Mai
2009-01-16, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: 2sultans | | I am at a little resturant writing this, so we will write more details later but I just wanted to let you know that we are well and safe! I will try to call tomorrow, I would have called today except ... |
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 | Chiang Mai
2008-12-16, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: rossnkaren | | After our fiasco with the 15 day visa exemption we decided to head to the immigration office and see what the score was. The new rules were designed to prevent people from doing 'border runs' every 3... |
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 | I GOT ROBBED! Chiang Mai Part 2 of 2
2008-12-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: yogibeari | | LAI THAI GUEST HOUSE, DO NOT STAY IN THIS PLACE. THEY STOLE MY MONEY!
Accommodations run anywhere between 150 baht to 3,000 baht per night. For me, I don’t necessarily want to stay in the cheapest ... |
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| Chiang Mai Part 1 of 2
2008-12-22, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: yogibeari | | Chiang Mai:
I took the bus to Chiang Mai. It is 800 kilometers from Bangkok and a 12 hours bus ride. Again, you travel at night and spend your sleeping on the bus. We had a trans bus attendant. You w... |
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| In Transit
2008-10-21, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: mthompsett | | Well arrived in Chiang Mai yesterday after transiting through Mumbai...wow what chaos, three international flights touching down within minutes. Imagine every sweaty, aggressive and yawning expat try... |
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 | Just getting started...
2008-10-04, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: stefunny | | Being a "mahout" for a day was a meaningful experience... but seeing my grandmother in the eyes of the oldest elephant at Elephant Nature Park was a travel something that cannot be described with word... |
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 | Jungle Trekking
2008-09-18, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: alexvale | | So we got back from a three day jungle trek today and we're both pretty nakered but it was well worth it. The photo's I've already uploaded (and yes I realise I spelt trekking wrong but couldn't be bo... |
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 | We've arrived at Chiang Mai
2008-09-15, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: alexvale | | Hi All
Thanks for my messages they're ace keep em coming! So it's been quite eventful to say the least since I last wrote and still so early in the trip. Ping pong show was urrrmmm not what we all ... |
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 | Mai, it's fun!
2008-08-12, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: janterrym | | Well, we have been here in Chiang Mai (after a VERY hard time getting here - it was Mother's Day AND the Queen Mother's birthday, so everything was booked up - but our buddy Del, got us another 'night... |
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 | elephants and hookers
2008-07-24, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: letlozz | | Another change of country.... our last as time is running out fast! Am loving Thailand so far, possibly because we're in Chiang Mai which is reportedly much calmer and hassle free than Bangkok. I thin... |
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 | Never Too Far Away
2008-06-12, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Damo | | Having unexpectedly spent over a week in Mae Hong Son, I was forced to rush through the areas further north, where I would definitely like to spend more time some day. Due to it being part of a conse... |
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 | Elephant Nature Park
2008-04-27, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: jltaylor | | I cannot begin to explain how brilliant my last week has been. The elephant park was actually really hard work, but so rewarding and i'm already planning my nest trip back.
The daily routine consi... |
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 | More from Thailand
2008-02-21, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: GBrownlie | | So we left Bangkok on 23 Feb and got the overnight "VIP" bus to Chiang Mai. It took 10 hours and we were kept awake all night by a big snoring dude in front of us! Arrived in Chiang Mai at 8am and hea... |
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 | 12: Chang Mai
2008-01-13, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Geerty14 | | Hey All!
Well we have officially left the Ahka training center and have turned our energies to our main focus--the backpacker...they live in the margins, they are always moving, they are searchi... |
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 | 11.5 The Ahka Training Center Cont
2008-01-11, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Geerty14 | | GREETING TO ALL OF YOU FROM ALL OF ME!
Life here at the Ahka Training Center is very good, the mornings (5:45A) are pretty early and very cold with fog, but i don't mind because that just means th... |
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 | 11: The Ahka Training Center
2008-01-04, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: Geerty14 | | Hey everyone!
Currently I am staying at the Ahka Training Center, it is a school for the children who live in the hills of northern Thailand. I love it here. There are currently 432 children who... |
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 | Piccies!!
2008-02-27, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | I just heard you have had an earthquake?! exciting... i guess it wasn't a bad one, did you all sleep through it?!
Unfortunately i can't put photos off my camera onto the computer so i will have to ... |
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 | Our last day in Chiang Mai
2008-02-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today we are gettig another sleeper train down to Bangkok before heading on to the islands. I am now on the Beechams Flu and Cold medicine though as i'm not feeling very well, i'm guessing it's the he... |
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 | Chiang Mai, Trek, Elephants, Rafting and more...!
2008-02-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: lizzy86 | | We have had a pretty hectic last few days so will have to give you an update of a few days all at once, we do not have the internet in the guest house where we are staying and its a good 45 minutes wa... |
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| Wat Phra That Doi Suthep
2008-02-26, Chiang Mai, Thailand. By: eme86 | | Today we went to visit Doi Suthep, one of the most important wats in the area. It's high up on a mountain, the story goes that Thai people back in the day put a religious artifact on the back of an el... |
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