Weekend Market

Chiang Mai

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January 29th 2008
We arrived in Chiang Mai after a trip on the night train (cue the Guns and Roses song from '87). It is a very nice city, albeit very touristy in areas. We took a 3 day trek in the Thai jungle north of here. It was pretty amazing as we hiked to remote villages, had an elephant ride, whitewater rafting, floated on bamboo rafts and got to know the people in our group (from Israel, Lithuania, I ... 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