Chiang Mai View from mountain

Day 4

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January 9th 2007
Arrived in Chiang Mai bright and breezy this morning at about half seven after our 12 hour bus ride down here. Our bus was huge! Booked in to a well cute place called 'Nice Place 2' We have a room on the ground floor right by the pool. We booked a one day trek for tomorrow which takes you up the moutains where you get to ride an elephant, see a beautiful waterfall, then raft back down the river ... 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