Mrs Lan's kitchen

Loy Kratong

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November 14th 2008
So, seasoned travellers that we are, we arrived in Chiang Mai completely unaware that it was "Loy Kratong", one of the biggest, if not the biggest, festival in Thailand. Dave and Malc had arranged for us to visit the Nature Lodge, about 60 km outside Chiang Mai. For this first couple of weeks of our journey we had left all the arrangements up to them. Everything has been the most wonderful surp ... 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