Lesley giving gifts to the Lahu children

Chang Mai

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October 10th 2006
Our first day in Chang Mai was spent having a few Chang Beers and then organising a hill trek up to one of the Thai Hill Tribes. As we had limited time before we left for Laos we were only able to squeeze in a two day, one night trek. We were picked up early in a bus and then transferred to a tuk tuk. Thankfully we only had 6 people on our tour group so it wasn't too crowded. We had gone no ... 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