Downtown Chiang Rai

Muslims are a surprisingly big part of society in Chiang Rai, which has its own grand mosque

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December 5th 2012
Most tourists going to Thailand don’t get any further north than Chiang Mai, so they miss out on the delightfully bucolic city of Chiang Rai just 2-3 hours to the north, and all of the fantastic sights within easy driving distance of this city. The main reason travellers have for venturing this far north is a stop-over on the way to or from Myanmar or Laos, and even they rarely get to see all th ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Rai

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

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