http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Thailand , North , Chiang Rai en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:53:10 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:53:10 UTC After the insanity of the Bangkok and Chiang Mai I decided to head north for a little peace and quiet. Maybe even read a book or two. Reflect on the universe that sort of thing. So I got on the bus for Chiang Rai.On the bus I met a guy named Bob from Boston who was traveling up to meet some local guy he had randomly met when he was doing a meditation retreat. Bob from Boston had the characteri http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-349073.html Videos de Chiang Rai http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-347765.html Premier jour a Chiang RaiCa y'est enfin un lieu digne de la reputation de la Thailande Chiang Rai situee bien au Nord de la Thailande est une toute petite ville ou peu de touristes s'aventurent etant donne qu'il n'y a quasi rien a y faire a part flaner et visiter quelques temples. Nous nous sommes installes au Naga Hill un petit hotel un peu plus cher que la moyenne quoique 16 euros le Bun http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-345834.html Last Wednesday was the Thai festival of Loy Krathong so we decided that morning to skip work and venture to Chiang Rai to get in on the action. The trip was several hours on sangteuw covered pickup truck with benches that operate like small buses bus and a longtail boat long boats with the prop several meters down a shaft from the engine...very cool. At one stop on the Mae Kok River there w http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-345475.html 12th novUp early again as im going to the golden triangle today and also to visit the Karen tribed women. we went to a hot spring on the way which was a waste of time.as it was a carpark with a hot spring fountainand jewelery shops surrounding the sprin. thailand is so 'money money money'It gets a bit anoying.We went to Chang Rai to the old city and saw one of the oldest watstemplesWe then drov http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-344671.html After two days in Chiang Rai we were still recovering from our illnesses but decided we should just suck it up and get a change of scenery. We headed to the Akha Hill House a rustic guesthouse located about 15 miles into the mountains. It's owned and operated by Akha Hill Tribe people and sounded like a good and cheap opportunity to do some hiking and nature stuff. It was billed as the onl http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-339923.html After hanging out with the monkeys in Lopburi we took a 2nd class train to Phitsanulok a generic town where we spent the night before heading to Chiang Mai. 2nd class was a HUGE step up from 3rd class in addition to assigned seats and AC we even got our own stewardess who served drinks and snacks. Since day 1 in Thailand locals had been encouraging us to go see Chiang Mai which is suppose http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-338448.html hidas sind bilder zu einem ausflug in den norden thailands.ich war alleine unterwegs mit einer tourgruppe da das fuer emma zu anstrengend und fad gewesen waere.zu sehen gab es den mekongriver bootsfahrt und die grenzen zu myanmar und laos. Zwei der sogenannten bergstammdoerfer standen auch auf dem Programm. sehr touristisch das ganze und den tag hptsl. im bus verbracht trotzdem interessan http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-338169.html Our hospital tour of Northern Thailand continues....October 10 We have been in Chiang Rai for several days now and I am ashamed to say that I dont have many pictures to show for them. We seem to have caught some strange bug perhaps while crossing swollen rivers filled with runoff read waste waist deep Today we finally got ourselves to the hospital for some blood testing. We are really gett http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-332922.html My time in Pai was so much fun. After all the rain we had the river level was so high and the rapids were huge We left from Pai on the 14th and came back on the 15th. My group stayed in the jungle in little shelters with mosquito nets. Our guides let us try their Thai food which was so awesome. Seems like Thai people eat a lot of salty fish mushrooms and rice. The thai menu goes a lot furthe http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-324517.html Hello Again. Spent the last couple of days in Chiang Rai visiting the night market a couple of temples and the Hilltribe Museum where I watched a film about how tourism is deteriorating hill tribe culture. This was intercut with footage of a British guy who along with his Burmese wife were trying to set up an eco tourist lodge in Burma. I think it's what they call ironic tho' possibly unint http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-320843.html Hello. Am in chiang rai in northern thailand. Getting used to unfailiar keyboards again so please excuse occasional finger slippin' typo. Has been a bit touch and go as to whether I'd actually make it what with the state of emergency being called and my bank freezing y bank acount four days before I was due to fly out because of what they thought was 'suspicious' activity ie all my money seem http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-320048.html In case you may have missed an email blast from my traveling or joined in after I left my home state I wanted y'all to know I now have a blog site. I started it in India and have finally completed it. Well okay it's nowhere near complete but it does have all the text emails I have sent out in the past year and 10 months almost since I started out on this verylongtriparoundtheworld.httpww http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-314207.html 7 July 2008In the morning at breakfast while I was still in Tha Ton I asked the guesthouse manager about the bus times for Chiang Rai. He said that his brother was going and that he could take me. I was a bit wary but thought it seemed 'above board' so I agreed. It was only going to cost 10 Baht more which is nothing really and it would mean that I would arrive a lot earlier. As it turned ou http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-311753.html I start this blog some 18 month after leaving home. Home is in a little village called Read in the county of Lancashire Northern England.Since setting off from home on the 31st January 2007 at the age of 21 i have visted 6 countries this includes 14 months spent in India a month in SrilankaCambodia 40 days in Loas 6 weeks in Nepal and 2 months in Northern ThailandUpon the 18 months on the roa http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-308865.html Day 12We travel by public bus to ThaTon our guesthouse for the evening Boan Suan resort is lovely beautiful surroundings gardens and by the river. Not on it this time though thankfully. We spend the day visiting different temples scattered over the hills and viewpoints.Day 13Songthaew to Mai Saw which is the most northern point of Thailand. We decided to cross the border to Myanmar Burma o http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-305755.html Sunday Morning Happy 26th Birthday to me Woke up to a birthday card written on toliet paper from Ev how sweet and a very good representative of our lifestyle at the moment a few cards and gifts from Mom and Ev and a plan for the day. For a birthday treat we decided to go out and see a movie in English We scoped out the theatres and decided Hancock was the best choice. So headed down to the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-303961.html This is a trip I had to take to renew my visa in BurmaMyanmar we went to the Golden Triangle and had a great road trip... http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-297422.html hi all. just a quick one. havent done much the last couple of days. on monday i wasnt very well went for a walk and had a smoothie then was sick all over a gortty toilet so went to hotel and went to bed for a couple of hours. when i got up jack made me drink ginger water and eat dry toast yumm i felt better after that and had a mcdonalds for teaOOPS. on the night we playd pool and wached abit http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-288766.html Tak jo hura za dobrodruzstvim nebo jen relax kdo vi co me ceka a neminePomalinku jsem se rano probudila vsak nebylo kam spechat autobus jede 5x denne. Dostala jsem se na autobusak kde jsem si koupila listek a za 30min uz jsem padila. Fajn autobus 3sedacky na pravo 2 na levo tak jsme se s domorodci trosku popucili. Prvni den byl smesny byla jsem bez mapy a tak jsem nevedela jak to v Cang Ra http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-287204.html Chiang Rai Cinemas Trip Entry January 23rd to February 1st.Chiang Rai is one of the most popular destinations for Thailand and one of the most popular for inbound tourism. Some of the most famous places in Chiang Rai is the most talked about Golden Triangle and the market at the Burmese boarder. This trip took me to the most northern part of Thailand to explore the cinemas up there. To reach the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-286765.html After some muchneeded recharge in Chiang Mai Kent and I set off to the Chiang Mai TAT Tourism Authority of Thailand.. every bigish town has one and explore our surround while we're at it. The old town of Chiang Mai where we were staying is a grid of wats and outdoor markets and surrounded by a moat. The TAT office was dissapointingly unhelpful but we did get bus scheduals to the NorthernL http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-286538.html Well I couldn't let my feet rest and the pull of distant lands and roads not yet seen finally got too much and after two years of the delights of Bradford I'm sat in a northern Thai town called Mae Salong which is about thirty miles from the Burmese border and fuck does it make me smile.Mae Salong is a sleepy hill town that stretches up the side of a hill. Red roofed houses fold into the distance http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-281470.html Day 39April 13th It is officially the first day of Sonkran Thai New Year and there are people throwing water EVERYWHERE All my valuables were kept in a plastic bag for the next few days. I walked carefully around town thankfully in the early daytime there are less people throwing water. The masses of waterthrowing people take to the streets in the afternoon and evening. I only had o http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-281026.html Day 1 7th May 2008 in Chiang Rai.Flight arrived to Chiang Mai International Airport at 1030 undecided to start off with CM or CR. After recalculate the days we took a taxi from Airport to Arcade Bus Station for Chiang Rai board a express bus. Checked into Moon Sun Hotel good package for 4D3N with breakfast.Nothing much to do on the first night except doing night shopping and open air ent http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-277812.html A night out the local way Today K and I joined another tour to Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangel north east of Chiang Mai. We spent most of the day in the bus for we had to drive three hours each way. We looked at yet another temple had lunch and then went to the golden triangle which is the boarder between Thailand Laos and Burma. Everyone was impressed by the view and they were excited about http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-274457.html So I've just got back from a little village in the middle of the mountains. It's under an hour from the city centre yet somehow manages to be very remote at the same time. I stayed with Lek one of the Akha girls who was staying at AFECT for the last couple of weeks. Two of my fellow phalangs western foreigner sorts Zoja and Suzie spent three nights sleeping on the floor of her house. Lek an http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-267286.html We were all bit exhausted by all the fun and adventure of the last couple of days so decide to just take it easy on our last day in Chiang Mai before leaving on the overnight train.We were booked on two different trains the first leaving at 430 and the second at 555 because train tickets are hard to come by this time of year even when booking months in advance. The guesthouse staff told us http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Rai/blog-266887.html Morning all.It's Song Kran today the traditional Thai new year. Actually the celebrations have been going on for a good few days now and aren't likely to stop just yet either. Song Kran isn't just about the new year though it's the celebration of the upcoming rainy season and is also called the water festival. People celebrate this holiday by chucking huge amounts of water at each other. 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