Lake Huay Teung Tao

My oh my, we how overated is Chang Mai?

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August 19th 2006
So the rest of our time in Chiang Mai was a bit of a nothing really. We spent most of the days wandering the streets in the boiling hot sun, finding this much hyped city to be a little on the overated side. We looked at the treks to the hill tribes and rafting and stuff, but we decided that we had seen villages and hill tribes for real when we drove through the villages in Laos and visited an Hmon ... 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