Hmong Village

Wats up in Chiang Mai

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March 20th 2009
Day 21 This morning, I was up early to join a tour to Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep (the infamouse temple on the hill) and a local hill tribe village. I booked through Journey Adventures as they seemed to be the cheapest around and they also published a very useful map of Chiang Mai that I picked up at the airport, so they seemed somewhat reputable to me. I was pleasantly surprised that we had an Engli ... 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