street walk, Mae Sariang

Quiet towns in the NW

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November 6th 2007
Following my instinct I decided to jump town and accompany the two British girls (actually one Brit, the other Welsh) that I met at the Sunday market on a journey to the north west of Chiang Mai. We caught an early bus heading to Mae Sariang, 4+ hours into the mountains to the west. By far the most compact bus I've ever been on, and the poor old machine struggled desperately to haul about a ... 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