Sometimes the travel gods smile on us. I would like to take credit for the brilliant planning that landed us in Chiang Mai for Loy Krathong, the festival of lights, but we were just lucky to be there at the right time and to find a room. The hotel was a modest three stars. We were a little concerned by the notice in the room warning of hotel thieves. But the location just inside the Pae Gate in the old walled city was ideal and the price was right. Loi Krathong is celebrated across Thailand on the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month, usually in November, when the tide in the rivers is highest and the moon at its brightest. After check-in, we wandered through the gate into a plaza just outside the old
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