Chaing Mai Elephant Park

Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Thailand

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February 7th 2011
Chaing Mai is a city of 180,000 people in the Northwest part of Thailand about 12 hours train ride north of Bangkok. We took the one hour plane ride with Air Asia instead. I think we are getting lazy. We decided to go to Chiang Mai since we heard it was a beautiful city and quite different than Bangkok. It has a quaint old section that is walled off and filled with temples. There are about 300 ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Chiang Mai

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more