Last Night in Chiang Mai

Over the Hills and Far Away...

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August 28th 2007
So the night we arrived in Chiang Mai we all decided to sample some Muay Thai Boxing at one of the local stadiums. I think some of us enjoyed it more than others! The stadium happens to be in the seediest part of town down a back alley. It turned out to be fine though and we saw six fights, each getting progressively more fierce than the last. The next morning we were up to begin our trecking. W ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more