Category Archives: Thailand

Posts while we were in Thailand

Thailand day 6 – Chiang Mai

Posted on Thursday, 01 Jan 2009 by Hattie

New Year brings a long weekend holiday and most shops and some bars and restaurants are shut and shuttered until Monday.  It gives the town an eerie, deserted feel.  We book our flights from New Zealand to Singapore leaving on … Continue reading →

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Thailand day 5 – Chiang Mai

Posted on Wednesday, 31 Dec 2008 by Hattie

The weather is good and preparations are in hand for tonight’s New Year celebrations.  We take a walk down to the river which runs east of the old town and wander round Warorot Market and across the footbridge to the … Continue reading →

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Thailand day 4 – Chiang Mai

Posted on Tuesday, 30 Dec 2008 by Hattie

Another sunny, cloudless day in Chiang Mai.  The travel arrangements are not proving easy to coordinate.  The flights to New Zealand have gone by the time we get to the travel agents again, and apparently there a no flights available … Continue reading →

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Thailand day 3 – Chiang Mai

Posted on Monday, 29 Dec 2008 by Hattie

The weather here has been glorious ever since we arrived;  blue skies and sun, but not too hot, just perfect for sightseeing.  We are thinking of doing some trekking whilst we are here, but first we need to arrange our … Continue reading →

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Thailand day 2 – Chiang Mai

Posted on Sunday, 28 Dec 2008 by Hattie

Chiang Mai is a rather pleasant, well-heeled town by south-east Asian standards.  At it’s centre is the old city, a neat square bounded by a moat and the remains of a wall built some 700 years ago.  Traffic streams around … Continue reading →

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Thailand day 1 – Chiang Mai

Posted on Saturday, 27 Dec 2008 by Hattie

We fly to Chiang Mai in Thailand today.  The flight was delayed by 45 minutes for some unexplained reason.  But the announcement system in Luang Prabang airport is so distorted that even if an explanation had been forthcoming we would … Continue reading →

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