Clio enjoying the food at the market

Out and about in Chang Mai

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March 16th 2011
So...here we are in Chiang Mai, with only a week of backpacking left. Our first 2 days in Northern Thailand don't really count, as we booked into a hotel on the outskirts, purely for the fact it had a swimming pool. After a chilly time in Hanoi we wanted a couple of days of sun...so that's what we did! Once our two days of luxury were used up, we had to downsize to a dirt cheap hotel, in a ... 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