Ulli and Swen at the paper mache bar

Muay Thai and Pad Thai in Chiang Mai

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September 18th 2007
We pulled into Chiang Mai by train in the morning of September 13th, after a pleasant night on one of Thailand's clean and comfortable sleeper trains. We pushed through the crowd of touts and taxi drivers at the station until we found a man holding a sign for Eagle House, our chosen hotel. We shared a van to the hotel with a German couple, Ulli and Swen, and by the time we pulled in at the hotel ... 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