One of the Temples - Wat Chedi Luang

Chiang Mai (13th - 17th March)

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March 18th 2007
After a 10 hour bus journey we arrived in Chiang Mai (suprisingly early as we'd thought it was going to take 12 hours!). We booked into the SK Guest House which was very well decorated and had a large (but cold!) swimming pool. Our room was quite large with fan (I'd managed to persuade Dan than he didn't need A/C) and hot water. We had a good Thai curry a couple of doors down from the hotel and a ... 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