From Around the Web – Living in Chang Mai for $600 a Month!

Hi all! Today I'm presenting this interesting video. Many people head to Thailand and Chiang Mai for more than a short stay, and so it's interesting to have a reference to how much you might need on an ongoing basis to live on. Chris takes the challenge to see if he can live a month …

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Sunday Spotlight – Chiang Mai

Most people who visit Chiang Mai seem to love it. Why is that? Is it the chance to get away from Bangkok where the weather is just too hot and sticky for most people? Perhaps. Chiang Mai also isn’t half or a quarter the size of Bangkok, but it’s been a backpacker Mecca for nearly …

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Foto Friday – Thailand, the Elephant and I

Many moons ago - 1999. My first trip to Thailand, and my first trip to Chiang Mai. I took the ye olde patented now elephant trek into the 'jungle' as they like to call it. Very few photos taken of the trek by me, however my friend on the elephant's back - Ian, bought this …

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Review – Top Garden Guesthouse, Chiang Mai

The last of my reviews of the budget places I stayed at in my recent journey to Thailand and Myanmar, I returned to Thailand after 17 days in Myanmar and headed up to Chiang Mai, a place I felt at least had changed even more than Bangkok in some ways since my 1999 visit. Not …

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Tigers, Boxing and…. a Museum

Hello all. Well, here I am, back in Australia, eventually. I will be reviewing all my flying experiences and I will probably be starting with my experience of the previous two days with Jetstar and it's not going to be pretty unfortunately, let's just say I got back into Melbourne more than 10 hours after …

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Trip of a Lifetime Part Two – Thailand and seeing how it all worked

So off with a bang! Thai Airways had me coasting through the clouds overnight. I remember the flight distinctively. Left at 1am, dinner a couple of hours later. Lights off for three hours and then lights on again and a movie – Sleepless in Seattle. Irony appreciated. Then breakfast and touchdown at just after 6am …

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