It was a year ago now that I first visited the tranquil little village of Baan Nam Khong and enjoyed gliding from tree to tree with the amazing Jungle Flight adventure. I got a chance to fly again last weekend and try out the longest, fastest and highest cables around Chiang Mai, a new adventure package amongst serene giant trees and bright green jungle. The new section of Jungle Flight has northern Thailand’s longest zipline (at 300 metres), three more lines measuring 130 to 180 metres, one of them over 40 metres high, with a stunning view of the mountains. You can take it all in if you choose Package B .
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Our recent vacation in Thailand (part 2)
There are dozens of hot springs around Chiang Mai, some are well-known and extensively developed like Sankamphaeng, others are only just more than small pools of water in the forest. Pong Dueat is on route 1095, one of the attractions we visited when we went to Pai with my friend in September: we were both intrigued by the signs saying “geyser” in English. I had never seen a proper natural one before. (In Samkamphaeng, it is pumped into the air artificially.) It would have been quite impossible by public transport for sure - though the road threw some surprises at us
This wonderful little gorge on the Khan river is one of my favourite weekend getaways. I didn’t have anything special in mind when heading out there this afternoon, just dangling my feet in the water, having a little swim, reading my book, taking a few pictures in the green season - the above picture was shot in March. The thing is, I am often asked for tips to see the “real Thailand”
When my mother comes to visit Chiang Mai, she always asks me to take her to the Rose Garden first. She insists that she knows this enchanted place from a previous life and gets annoyed when I point out that Bhubing Palace (Phuphing Palace) wasn’t constructed until 1961. Bhubing Palace is the winter residence of the royal family, which has also been used to welcome royal guests or heads of state from other countries.
Welcome to the blog review for March. Last month saw many quality Thailand blog posts hit the screens around the globe, once again proving what a colourful and topical place the Land of Smiles is.
I have never visited Chiang Mai before and it’s one destination I intend adding to my “places visited” list sometime [...]
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Police yesterday raided the offices of D-Station on Lat Phrao road and the offices of community radio stations in Udon Thani, Chiang Mai and Lampang as per orders from the Emergency Execution Command (EEC), the agency involved with handling the country under the Emergency Decree.
In following the EEC order, the Information Technology Regulation Office [...]
Fantastic is the only way to describe this special Thai curry recipe. If you enjoy curry chicken, you’re going to love this Thai Jungle Curry. Jungle curry is a famous Thai dish from Chiang Mai, a city in the north of Thailand. While this curry is usually made with wild meats, here I’ve [...]
Gaeng Khi Hlek Nuea Yaangแกงขี้เหล็กเนื้อย่าง(Khi Hlek means “Rust” so “Rust tree” - actually literally tranlsated it means “iron shit” but the word shit is used to accentuate many other words, and does not only refer to excement - the real word for rust is “Sanim”, in Thai).I love Gaeng Khee Hlek i- it has a [...]
Khao SoiMany travellers to Thailand’s Northern Provinces aquire a taste for the seemingly defty thick noodle soup known as “Khao Soi“. Khao Soi is a thick, reddish-orange opaque soup with noodles and chicken. It has an extremely tangy zing to it, and one of the high points is the sprinkling of additional fresh raw vegetables, [...]
Gays and Katoey’s sometimes spelt Kathoey or referred to as ladyboy’s are not treated fairly in Thailand if an article in today’s Nation is to be believed. In the article it is alleged that most foreigners and interestingly many Thais believe that Thailand is quite liberal in its approach to homosexuality and transsexuals.
Though my own [...]
The battle lines are drawn, in the ongoing fight over Thailand’s grotesque lèse majesté laws. It’s “Western” democracy versus “Thai” culture. In contemporary political discourse, after all, ”culture” is just about the only word whose international currency rivals democracy’s. To be sure, culture commands more respect than the “dictatorship” and “oppression” it is frequently invoked to mask. As [...]
Giant pandas Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui at the Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand may soon have a baby or twins.
“There’s a possibility that Linhui might have ovulated twice. She may give births to twins,” Zoological Park Organisation director-general Sophon Damnui said Monday.
According to him, two artificial inseminations have just been conducted for [...]
Here a some pictures of foreign tourists stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
They are going to remember Thailand for a very long time, as the rest of their lives couldn’t be any more boring than this. I wonder if there are any Thai masseurs out there in the airport, as the tourists are going to [...]
