Handmade Umbrella's

Packaged Tourist Day!

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December 24th 2006
Our first day in Chiang Mai we had no plans so we ended up being offered, complimentry from our hotel, to take us around to see some of the local handicraft factories. We were shuttled between the different factories/shops in a van, but they were no more than 300m apart. First stop was a silk factory. They showed us silk production, from the larva eggs to moths, extracting the silk from their ... 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