What do you do when you only have one final day on holidays? Why you treat yourself to luxury. And in Thailand, that means massages, first class cinemas and good food. After our experience of first class cinemas in Phuket I was excited to find that they were at the Maya Shopping Mall in Chiang…
We get up in the morning with plans to go to Doi Suthep and the Chiang Mai Zoo. We walk down to the temple near our hostel where the songtows wait to collect passengers. Two American girls and two European girls were waiting and we tried to negotiate a songtow with them but they were…
We had read about the Chiang Mai Flower Festival in our Thailand guide book but weren’t sure exactly when it would be on. Well, how lucky were we: it was on the weekend we were in town. And what a spectacular event it was. This might seem like lazy blogging but I think the photos…
Being lovers of all things art and creativity we had to go to the White Temple in Chiang Rai. And, given that Paul has always wanted to travel to Myanmar, we had to go to the Golden Triangle so that he could glimpse the country of his dreams. So we booked a one-day Chiang Rai…
Some days are just perfect. Today we took a tour with Chiang Mai Mountain Bike & Kayaking. As those who follow my blog will know, I rarely recommend any commercial enterprise in my posts. But today is an exception because our kayaking trip was brilliant and made possible by the tour company. While we had…
After four nights at the apartment near the bus station, I make an executive decision and book us a new hotel inside the Old City. It’s not that the apartment is particularly bad but I want to be closer to clean restaurants, massages and temples. So, despite Paul still feeling under the weather, we walk…
Poor Paul woke up sick this morning. We think he might have eaten some dodgy chicken last night because it’s the only thing he ate that I didn’t. His stomach is churning like mine did that night in Lat Ya. He can’t go anywhere in this condition and I am quite happy to have a…
Neither of us feels much like walking today. We’ve been hitting the sight seeing quite hard during our trip and it’s time for a rest. I spend most of the morning working while Paul sleeps in. We take a short walk to the Central Festival shopping centre that’s about a mile from our apartment to…
We’re in a new city and again we have no idea what to expect. But we have heard there are lots of temples to explore here in Chiang Mai so that’s what we set out to do. It’s a 3km (2 mile) walk from our apartment to the Old City so there will be a…
It’s about 50km from Ayutthayato Don Meung airport from where we will take a flight to Chiang Mai. Everything we’ve read says it should only take half an hour but I am overly cautious with these things, especially after the train epic back in Kanchanaburi. So we leave the hotel early and walk around the…
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