Chiang Dao Photo 6

Chiang Dao

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December 19th 2008
After being in Chiang Mai for so long I decided that I needed to get away for a long weekend. There aren't so many national holidays in Thailand but on the friday it was the Kings birthday so almost everyone had the day off... this was essential as I was traveling to Chiang Dao with a Thai person. So as I was with a Thai person we took the local bus up there (I wouldn't have done by myself, I didn ... 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