Blogs from Chiang Mai, North-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 333

(Gem Writes) It has been just under two weeks since we added our last entry. We have had some real adventures in that time, i just cannot believe how the time is flying! We spent a couple of days in Bangkok exploring. We met up with Sarah and Jon, a couple that we had met in Australia and had stayed in touch with. It was great to see them again and catch up with each others travel adventures. We spent a whole day at the Grand Palace and Wat Po, which is home of the largest reclining Buddha in Thailand. They are both very impressive, the Grand Palace is quite vast and took us a few hours to explore. It was hard going in the heat! It is amazing to see, just so colourful and different ... read more

Sooo much has gone on since the last entry! From the beautiful beaches of Rai Lei we took a boat over to another island on the west coast, Koh Phi Phi. Seems like the west side is a lot more scenic than the east. Koh Phi Phi got hit pretty hard by the tsunami and its not hard noticing both the damage to the building and trees... The island was obviously filled with many tourists as well as hard working locals. We were told that many people were killed on the island, but by the friendly nature of these people, we would never have known. We spent 3 nights on the island and throughout this time, we were able to once again relax much like the rest of our trip. Our first full day kevin decided ... read more

Greetings from Chiang Mai!! What a lovely place this is and such a contrast to Bangkok even though it's the second city in Thailand. We are staying in Winner's Inn which is pretty central but not ideal for backpacker budget. However it was part of our TAT package deal to Laos and so we are milking it! It is a palace compared to what we are used to-the first hot shower we've had since we got here and an actual shower as opposed to a combined toilet/hose system most places have going on!The first night we were here we were brought to a traditional thai restaurant as part of our package. It was a really lovely experience. We were greeted at the entrance by six young thai girls in traditional costume who performed a welcome dance ... read more

There’s little I can write about this ancient city because I simply don’t know much. I was eating dinner with my Swedish friend Emma at the Laughing Leprechaun, an Irish Restaurant in Chiang Mai and with the menu, the Thai waitress brought us a local magazine. I was immediately drawn to the picture on the front cover of the magazine that held an article about Wieng Kum Kam, the ancient city that has only recently been unearthed 5 km south of Chiang Mai. The low light prevented me from reading the full article but the pictures all seemed to be from one individual excavation sight. I hadn’t planned what to do the following day so we decided to take the mopeds we had rented the previous day and head south to find these ruins and see ... read more

Hello! So yesturday we had to waste a lot of time because we had to check out of our guest house at noon, and our train to Chiang Mai didn't leave till 9pm so... we walked the street of Khao San once again, and we decided to get an oil massage for half an hour it was pretty cheap like $5 canadian. It was so nice! We were quite confused as to how much clothes we had to take off so it was very funny and we could'nt stop laughing because the little thai ladies were telling us to take off more and more each time they checked to see if we were done changing haha!! So then we wandered off the main road to a side street and found a vendor selling the same shorts ... read more