The trek begins

Chiang Mai

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March 8th 2008
We arrived in Chiang Mai Wednesday morning after a 12 hour bumpy overnight journey and were taken straight to a guesthouse where we met our tour guide and headed straight out for day 1 of the trek. We headed off at lunchtime and did a 3 hour trek 2,100 feet up a mountain with Deaks at the back of the group informing everyone, in all seriousness, that she was about to have a heart attack and di ... 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