Rubber tree with latex collecting

Chiang Mai arrival

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January 31st 2007
We'll be here several days while we see the sights and get our Chinese visa, but that should be no problem as it seems like a great little city with lots to do. The bus ride up was fine, the terrain became slightly hillier and the A/C was on "meat-locker" the whole way (is there no happy medium?). We stopped at one point for a break and a local knocked a bunch of tamarind pods off a tree for the b ... 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