The 600 year old shrine at Wat Phra Sing

Chaing Mai arrival

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January 12th 2009
We arrived in Chaing Mai early at 5am. I didn't get much sleep on the bus, I was too worried about the driver's manic driving! Because we arrived early our cab wouldn't be there till gone 7am. So we bundled into a tuk tuk and went to the hotel. After changing our worst room yet because they gave us a double, we went to bed. got up at midday to go into town. Hopefully Chaing Mai would be better ... 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