Paul the speed demon

Chiang Mai

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February 5th 2012
After a freezing 16 hour train journey we arrived in Chiang Mai, (freezing due to the air con). Luckily we arrived on a Sunday so it was the walking street market which was a huge market the length of the main/longest street in Chiang Mai (Paul felt it was a very very long street as well). The market was ace and consisted of shops, food stalls and people busking in the middle which was cool. It wa ... 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