Changwat Chiang Rai Vacations, Changwat Chiang Rai Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

This is our tour group in front of the hotel. There is me in the middle (wearing one of my fake Lacoste T-shirts), Jef and Gerda at my right, Elisabeth and Sonia (the girls from Luxembourg) at my left, and behind them David and Mireille (the Walloon couple). All in the right corner is Raf and Carine, and in front from left to right there is hot, our busdriver, and our Thai guide Mac. Those are the people I hang out with. To be honest, I have already forgotten the names of the others :SAlready...

After a very good night of sleep (sometimes waking up because some gecko's were making noises) and having breakfast I returned to Chiang Rai using the free ride from the hill house. The trip standing in the back of a pick-up truck was fun. There was a Canadian girl on the ride that will be on the same flight tomorrow so we agreed to share a tuc-tuc to the airport.I checked in at the Akha river house (related to the Akha hill house), because I didn't want to bother looking for another guesthou...

What was it they said about 'the best laid plans....'? Mine went fairly astray today because a number of factors involving rogue bus drivers, language barriers, and the thai way of life in general. After being reassured multiple times by the Chiang Mai hotel concierge that there would be at least hourly airconditioned buses to Chiang Khong taking only six hours I took a leisurely approach to breakfast and checkout, arriving at the bus depot at 0915, only to be told that the only bus to C...

I don't have much to say about Chiang Rai since i was only here two days and I was sick pretty much the entire time.  It didn't seem like there was all that much to do here and most backpackers only stay a night on their way to Laos.