Roadside stands everywhere

Chiang Mai Day 3

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February 25th 2011
So today we got an early start when we were picked up for our elephant trek, a one hour hike to a waterfall, river rafting and visit to the Kaka (sp?) people. The first stop was a people group that originally came from Tibet. There are about 150 of them in Thailand in this village. They do not speak Thai and live in a pretty primitive area. The condition for them in the past few years has impr ... 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