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Welcome to Chiang Mai

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June 26th 2007
So we are in Chiang Mai! We came up on Friday by the overnight train. It only took 15 hours and it was torture. It was like being in the oven on christmas day with the turkey taking its last breath at you (the fan). It was so hot, bumpy and noisy, it made the sheffield to barnsley train seem like paradise. Luke nearly fell out of the top bunk on many occassions. When we go back down south we are ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

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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