Trekking

Chiang Mai

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June 11th 2006
Our first day in Chiang Mai was pretty relaxed after our bus ride and we just wandered around town having a look at a few different wats and things. We had heard that there was a really good market that they have here on Sundays so we went to check this out in the evening and it was pretty impressive, they shut down about 6 roads and they were just covered in stalls, we managed to find a cheap din ... 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