View from a tuk tuk

Chiang Mai (March 15-16)

---

March 21st 2006
Written March 21, 2006 8:20pm in Chiang Mai After a few days of the heat, bustle and pollution that is Bangkok in March we were eager to escape to the north for a visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second largest city and effectively the capital of the northern provinces. Our train ride, a jerky 14 hours of fitful sleep, left us in the Chiang Mai train station at about 10am. After gathering our ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

---

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