Chiang Mai Travel Blogs - Page 4

Again at 08:00 the guide came to wake everybody up and we had breakfast (scrambled eggs instead of a boiled one this time). After breakfast we started walking again. An hour later we got into a car and went driving for about 2 hours. We had lunch at an elephant camp (take-out food again, but this t…

The train journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai was pretty much an all day event, starting at 8.30am and arriving 12 hrs later. Much prefered the day journey, gave us an opportunity to see some sweet little towns, farmers working in the rice fields and plenty more temples on the way. Upon arriva…

I will flying into Bangkok and taking a private shuttle to Ban Phe, where I will be taking a TESOL Certificate course with TEFL International. After the 4 week course is over, I will be travelling through Thailand, seeing as many places as I can!!!

So my 1st week was a frantic one - I landed in Bangkok and spent 3 days there acclimatizing and site seeing - I had completely forgotten how huge the city is and polluted. There is one new addition though - the sky rail and metro (underground) which was not there in 2001 when I was last in Thailan…

With an extra 30 days in Thailand, we had to work out exactly how long we could reasonably stay in Chiang Mai and still see the parts of the country which we had wanted to see. We figured about 2 weeks. So there began our countdown to leaving Chiang Mai. Realising we hadn't actually seen m…

2 months travelling around North Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Thai Islands

Went for a Thai cooking class today. The bloke took us to the local market and to all these stalls to show & explain to us all the different ingredients which are used in Thai cooking. It was really interesting but as I thought most of what he said has escaped me so I'll skip to the cooking. He…

We signed up for a Thai cooking class. Our school picked us up in the morning. We were talking to other people who were in the vehicle & almost everyone was from close to home. There was 2 from Victoria, 2 from Vancouver & one who was from Texas but moving to Seattle in July. It was kind of…

Nice Place bookmarks: If you stay at Nice Place 1 or 2 in Chiang Mai, don't be surprised if you get very strange love letters in the form of bookmarks from them. Mine claimed: 'For Chelsea... You'll always be in our memory... Nice Place II Chiang Mai Thailand'. Als was a little more ridicu…

Photos to follow very soon!!!! We arrived in Chaing Mai, 8 years after first coming here. Stayed in the old centre like most people, just a few doors down from the Baan Thai cooking school. We enrolled on a day course and paid over our 900 baht each thinking this is a lot of money, hope its worth …

Day two of our trek consisted of 2 hour hike down the mountain in the morning until we reached the starting point of the rafting. From there we were split up into groups of 4 for each raft and made our way down towards the bottom of the mountain. Unfortunately the rafting was fairly tame and we did…

Hello hello, Today's my fifth day in Chiang Mai, and I'm forcing myself to update for two reasons: 1) The further I fall behind, the more reluctant I am to update. While I log in relatively often to add new entries, every time I do so I think 'wow I still haven't written anything a…

We returned to Chiang Mai, and actually took some time to see the place this time!We arrived at the bus station just as the heavens were about to open, and by the time we arrived into the centre of town on a songthaew it was a deluge. We cowered in a hotel/cafe/restaurant place and had something to…

Thailand is as good a place as any to start uploading some pictures of my travels. These were taken from trips in August & September 2005 and most recently in August 2007. Enjoy!

We went to visit Doi Suthep Temple today, situated at the top of a very steep windy road, which didn't do Lisa any good because she suffers from motion sickness. She made it though so its all good! Before we got there, we had 304 steps to get up. I just went for it and shot up those steps…