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The Night Train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok

The Rapid train is scheduled to depart Chiang Mai at 9:30 p.m., but by 10 it has not arrived from...

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Lovely women in traditional costume served our Loy Krathong dinner.

Loy Krathong is a special festival celebration in Thailand in November. Float your sorrows away a...

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Night markets in Chiang Mai

Sex Tours de Force

The globalization of prostitution has many the same characteristics and reasons for being as the ...

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Traditional Thai Houses

For about a year, near the walled city of Chiang Mai, I lived in a house on meter-high stilts. Th...

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Bamboos form the backdrop of the main chapel. This area with a solitary bench is one of my favourite places at Seven Fountains.

Silent Retreat at Seven Fountains

Chiang Mai is laid back, quiet and its people friendly. Along a busy (well, at least in Chiang Ma...

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Teaching English in Chiang Mai

Routes to an English teaching job in Chiang Mai, with contact information.

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Pig Head Anyone?

Ode on a Thai Fresh Market (With Love and Squalor)

Every Thai municipality worth mentioning has a fresh market. In a way, the market defines the mun...

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HYUT BPLOO-UK! (STOP TERMITES!)

Man the Tubs! Termites Invade Thailand!

In the course of a correspondence with the headmaster of the school ultimately responsible for br...

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A Northern Thai Primer

A brief article on some of the peculiarities of northern Thai dialect, spoken in Chiang Mai and e...

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Chiang Mai's Irish Pub is the kind of place where you just might take part in a dance party with the waitstaff after closing time.

Confessions of a Chiang Mai Barfly

* * * * * Drinking alcohol is, of course, a loathsome vice, and all right-thinking and up-standin...

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Northern delights - in search of Kao Soi

Of all the wonderfully exotic foods in Thailand nothing strikes a chord like the mention of Kao S...

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A 1000 Thai Baht bill

Why She Couldn't Make Change from a Big Bill

When one withdraws money from an ATM in Thailand, the machine dispenses 1000 baht bills. ฿1000 ...

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An elephant, near Mae Rim, Thailand.

An Abolitionist for Elephants

Lek, director of Chiang Mai's Elephant Nature Park and a National Geographic "Heroine for the Pla...

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This sign for a Chiang Mai restaurant shows the word 'coca' transliterated into Thai. The four characters are, from left to right, o-k-k-ah; but, because of Thai's placement of vowels, it is read 'kokah.' Transliterations are common for loan words; 'download', for example, is 'daonlot', with a mark over the 'n' to make it silent.

Learning the Thai Language

Westerners in Thailand take up the study of the country's language to a degree unprecedented in m...

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Chiang Mai Night Bizarre

One of the first places I had the pleasure to visit in Chiang Mai is its Night Bazaar or Night Ma...

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Muay Thai: The "Invincible" Martial Art of Thailand

The village of Chang Khien, hard by the old city of Chiang Mai, is home to the Lanna Muay Thai tr...

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Polluted Chiangmai: Cleaning Up The "Kha"

More than 250 years ago, a clear little stream known to the locals as Menam Kha wound its way thr...

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Disappearing in the Discos of Chiang Mai

What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It's a great thing, the dance. -- Cor...

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A very nice guesthouse in Pai

Foreigners find Pai enchanting

Gazing up, the clouds above Pai seem different from elsewhere, their form and shape influenced by...

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A Chiang Mai Bookstore Odyssey

And they call me the jewel of Asia, Of Asia, The Geisha. -- James Joyce, Ulysses When it comes to...

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