http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Thailand , North-West Thailand en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:07:48 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:07:48 +0000 Figyelemremelto utazasi teljesitmennyel vegzodott az oev December 30an.4 ora Kairoig3 ora varakozas8 ora Bangokig4 ora varakozas1.5 ora Chiang Maiig ahol Dana vart engem1 ora takkerral at a varoson Szilveszteri oruletben.1 ora sorbaallas buszjegyert2 ora varakozas9 oras buszut a hegyi szerpentineken fel Mae Hong Sonba nehany kilometerre a Burmai hatartolottani hajnal 5kor erkeztunk meg olyan elm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Mae-Hong-Son/blog-464847.html Sukhothai Thailand by PaulFrom Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand we went halfway back down to Bangkok by taking a bus trip to a town called Sukhothai.Sukhothai was the capital of Thailand from the 1200s to the 1400s. It was sort of where the ldquoThainessrdquo of Thailand was first developed and where Thailand started to come together geographically. It was also one of the largest an http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Sukhothai/blog-464066.html I thought I would go back to the hotel and write my diary if not my blog yet which I intend to do.I spent most of the afternoon on the computer checking how to add entry to the blog and reading what I had written so far. In the evening I went to the travel agent to check the ticket for Huan Hin. Then I went to a Landmark education last evening of the Forum where participants invite guests. I a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-463205.html Das Haus wie schon auf dem Foto erkennbar ist eigentlich ein Schweizer Chalet. Vom Stil her. Zumindest von aussen her gesehen... Aber so unscheinbar wie es so auf den ersten Blick scheint ist es gar nicht... Leider ist es drinnen den ganzen Tag durch ziemlich dunkel. Es ist aber dafr auch immer schn khl drinnen. Auf jedenfall sind die Fotos dementsprechend dunkel...Nun habe ich 2 Schlafzimmer m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Sukhothai/blog-463165.html Es interessiert euch sicher wie man so in Thailand Weihnachten feiert. Nun zuerst einmal muss man wissen dass in diesem buddhistischen Land fast niemand Weihnachten feiert deshalb haben diese Woche die Kinder auch Schule gehabt genauer gesagt sogar Halbjahresprfungen. Die Ferien fangen dann eine Woche statt. Deshalb haben wir hier auch nicht am 24 oder 25 gefeiert sondern am Wochenende davo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Sukhothai/blog-463162.html The 2hr bus from Chiang Rai to Chang Khong cost us a whopping 65 THB...or AU 2.20. The entire distance was travelled with both doors wide open and our fingers crossed our bags didn't fling out on the corners.Once in Chiang Khong we took a tuk tuk for 30THB each to Thai immigration got stamped jumped on a longtail boat for the 2 minute journey across to Laos. Immigration there is quite straight http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Rai/blog-462755.html Ahh back to chillin in Chiang Mai http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-462212.html Well i was kinda excited to see what it would be like to ride an elephant. I was told that they treated them really badly but i wanted to see it with my own eyes. I paid for it already anyhow Experience all in all never again http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-461738.html I was the first one up this morning and it was freaking FREEZING My feet were numb and i couldnt wait for the damn sun to come up. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Mae-Hong-Son/blog-461728.html Day 11Getting the crew togetherI woke up at around 8 o clock in the morning and got my bags packed up and put my entire stuff down in the luggage room and handed over my passport and some important documents in the safety deposit and kept the 50 ltrs bag which I bought from the market yesterday with me. I checked out from the room and booked for 2 day trekking tour instead of a planned 3 day trek. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-461682.html Nestled in the mountains of North West Thailand is an adorable little town called Pai. The first thing to day about our favourite place yet is that it is definately best to get the local bus from the Arcade bus station. We decided to do this to save money and sweated our arses off walking half an hour in the midday sun with our backpacks to the bus station. It was the most gorgeous bus journe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Pai/blog-461642.html Ok...so the story continues but it's incredibly backdated so you'll have to bear with me in terms of what I can draw out of my travel addled brain We headed to Chang Mai on an overnight bus it's suprising how quickly you can get used to these. We both actually managed to sleep this time so we checked into our hotel and booked ourselves onto the 'Flight of The Gibbon' for the same afternoon suc http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-461640.html Auf dem Balkon sitzend den Geruschen der vielfltigen Tierwelt lauschend und gewrmt von den Sonnenstrahlen schreibe ich euch diesen Blogeintrag.Vieles ist geschehen seit dem letzten Blogeintrag soviel dass es gar nicht in einem Eintrag Platz hat.Ich bin in einem gut klimatisierten aber eher unbequemen Bus in ca. 7h von Bangkok nach Sukothai gereist. Zu Beginn schaute ich noch interessiert aus http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Sukhothai/blog-461604.html The elephant ride was slow and bumpy. We got roped in to buying bunches of bananas to feed our elephant....it's the only way we could get it to move It would raise its stinky trunk up over its head to where we were perched and blow air on us 'till we bought another bunch. They can eat around 250kg of bananas a day so we had no fear of over feeding it. We drove further into the mountains to a sma http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-461356.html So after falling in love with Chiang Mai we changed our plans and rather than spending 3 days traveling to get to Vietnam we stayed where we were. Spent a lot of time chilling out in the sun went to the Night Bizarre and a few other markets just the usual. Minus one day when we paid a bargainous 8 pounds canrsquot find the pound sign on this keyboard with another couple for a taxi drive http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-460959.html Day 2 in this crazy city Had to rent a scooter http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-460564.html Chiang Mai Chiang Rai PaiOK so we organised our trekking trip. Twas awesome. Met an elephant did the bamboo rafting thing which got a bit boring after a while coz you have to stand up the whole time. We were a group of 6 a Czech couple another American and a Dutch guy. We stayed in a village next to the river and just after we arrived some of us hopped in to wash off the sweat from the s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Pai/blog-460528.html Hello Everyone Here I am again. This time I am writing to you from Chang Mai. And I am very exhausted right now. I did something crazy. I went on a 3 day trek trough the jungle. However before I go and tell you about that i will first tell you about what happened before that.I took an overnight bus from Ayuthaya to Chang Mai and that was horrible it was way too long. So without any sleep I arr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North-West-Thailand/Chiang-Mai/blog-460344.html Today we did all our laundy. More correctly we paid people 50 baht per kg of washing normally only 25 baht per kg but we needed it to be done express to do it for us. They got all of the stains out it was great and clothes feel so soft. They even folded it all after they washed and dried it.After this we set out for Doi Supthet National Park to see another famous Wat. This was very elabo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-460343.html We had a horrible sleep with hard mattresses and pillows i think they were lined with dried out rice and a bamboo floor that bowed time you shifted your weight. The roosters also started crowing constantly from about 3 am. We woke about 730 and got ready for the day. Breakfast was as good as our sleep. Inedible scrambled eggs and cold toast. Lucky the tea was good.We set of down to the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-460341.html