Chiang Rai Travel Blogs

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 Carin…

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 s…

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.

This's my 1st trip after I was back from my Germany trip in last June :) I'll try to update more reviews ... more photos ... more detail from this trip asap!

Nouja niet helemaal. De enige overeenkomst is dat ik vandaag naar een ander 3-landenpunt ben geweest. Maar wederom, beginnen bij het begin. Woensdagochtend de bus genomen van Chiang Mai naar Chiang Rai, verder naar het noorden. Aangekomen in de stad gemeet met Daniella. Een vriendin van Johnny die…

27/07 - 15/09 - 2004 Bangkok, Ayuthaya, Sukkothai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chiang Soen, The Golden Triangle, a bit of Laos, Phuket, Ko Samui, Ko Pang Han, Ko Tao, Rayong, Ko Samet, Bangkok. Me, Nida, Giamma, Dario, Nadia: and we met Stephane

I had the wonderful opportunity to spend a month and a half in Thailand for serice work and cultural education. Four other students and I divided our time between learning about NGO work, volunteering at the McKean Leprosy Center sponsored by the Thai-German Leprosy Foundation in Chiang Mai, and exploring the wonderful sites, temples and markets of Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Surat Thani, and Krabi, as well as numerous remote villages on the northern Thai border during our humanitarian trips.

i've been to thailand 3 times,its a bit to hot to walk about all day so i hire a motorbike(about£3 a day ,petrol 40p a lt)the best part was time i spent whith refugees up in the high jungle of north thai. the akha tribes and also met the beautiful women of the carion tribe(girraffe neck)i thought it had been banned the same as bound feet in china

By Carol Driver   http://www.travelbite.co.uk/holiday-ideas/asia/thailand/bangkok/escorted-holiday-ideas-in-northern-thailand-$1288634.htm   It’s 11am, 34 degrees and I have been hiking for two hours in the jungle north of Chiang Rai. Already, you could take the T-shirt off my back …

We had lined up a one day tour up to the Golden Triangle and back and we managed to pack a lot in, ahead of me in the day was a monkey cave, a burmese border, speedboat to taste snake whiskey in Laos to name but a few :) I joined my Slovenian friends Jaan and Sonja in a jeep with the friendly mana…

Arrived from Bangkok to Chiang Rai and was picked up by my good friend Eak and his friends. We went to his home, left my luggage, and drove to Theung. Theung is a small city where we were invited to a big dinner and accompanying show. The show lasted for like 4 hours, traditional folk dance etc...&…

3 weeks of exploring the north of my favorite country, along with a 5 day detour to Hanoi and a few day trips to Myanmar and Laos.

Vandaag lekker ‘uitgeslapen’ tot 9 uur. Vandaag hebben we een relaxdag! Er staat niets op het programma dus dat wordt lekker zwembadhangen en bijbruinen! Hoewel de zon dan wel moet schijnen natuurlijk! Helaas was in het ochtend net zo bewolkt als gister. Tegen 12-en waren we allebei in slaap g…

Thailand, Lao, Vietnam & Cambodia

During December 3-8 of year 2005, it is a long weekend. So I made a trip to go up north to Chiangmai and Ching Rai province. It was a nice trip with my family