Wat Chedi Luang

Laid Back Chiang Mai

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June 6th 2012
As the monsoon rains arrived with fervor, I too arrived in the laid back city of Chiang Mai. This city, Thailand’s second city has a very different vibe than Bangkok. Of course, it is striving like Bangkok to become more modern, more hip, more western but it still has a laid back feel to it. Maybe because its backdrop is the surrounding mystical mountains, the south part of the great Himalyahn m ... 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