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Chiang Rai – The Art Route
There is actually a map you can get in the hotels or at the different artists house telling you about these spots around Chiang Rai province. It is really a mini adventure when you see a sign and finally get to the place. We were really amazed by the great location and the design of … Read more
Lanjia Lodge – great hideaway in Northern Thailand
Travelling in northern Thailand in the rainy season has some advantages. Less people, lower prices and greener nature. Last weekend me and my family went on tour yearly roadtrip up to Chiang Rai province. This time we followed a recommendation from a friend of mine to stay at Lanjia Lodge, not far from Chiang Khong and a great place … Read more
Life is Easy, don’t you think?
TEDx Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai 2011A selected one hundred people was fortunate to get an invitation to the first ever TEDx event in Chiang Mai, TEDx Doi Suthep. Here are a few “in-my-seat” photos from the event. See the full gallery on Posterous I really would like to extend my gratitude for everyone involved to make this event come … Read more
The Buddhas of Wat Jed Yod
The Gaze of the BuddhaIn Chiang Mai there are a great many temples within the 700 year old city walls and an even greater number outside the walls. One of the most sacred and important ones is Wat Jet Yod that is located just ten minutes from the city center. What really is special about … Read more
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai – 3 articles that puts Chiang Mai on the map
It could be because I live here, but I don't think so. I mean that Chiang Mai keeps popping up in lists for where you should be, or go 2011. If you have followed this blog throughout the years, you can find plenty of reasons as for why we love Chiang Mai. And here are … Read more
Thai Festivals you shouldn’t miss
Thai New Year coming up Now it is countdown for Songkran again. New Year celebrations and water splashing around the city, and in the moat in particular. Just enjoy all the fun, but be careful in the traffic. Water war, whisky&soda and driving a car or motorbike is not best of combinations. This year a … Read more
7 memories from Inle Lake
Inflight to Heho airport – the landscape looks like a chessboard. Squares of rice paddies, spread out around a small village. – Darn, I should have had my camera ready, says Jan. Have to do with mine then. The small pizza shaped candies just given by the air stewardess drops to the floor when … Read more
Mad about Mandalay
Sorry folks, he was never even here. Yes, I mean Kipling. The man that made us crazy about this place – the road to Mandalay. The story of sailors on the steamboats on the 700 kiolmeter long ride on the Irrawaddy. Kipling wrote about Mandalay and a pagoda, but the pagoda was in the … Read more
Thailand and its love of elephants
Right, in Thailand its not only elephant day. It is NATIONAL elephant day. In Chiang Mais Mae Rim district, more precisely Mae Sa elephant camp, the love for elephants are shown by the feeding of no less than 70 chuaks เชือก (a special title in Thai for showing respect for elephants) an annual buffet at … Read more
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Bagan – The new Angkor Wat of South East Asia Yes I know, Burma’s Bagan is not new. Neither are any of the pagodas in Bagan anywhere near Angkor Wat in size. The headline is simply referring to an imaginary headline that I can imagine the travel magazines might use to describe this place in a … Read more
