Chiang Mai

The Night Train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok

Anonymous — Tue, 27 May 2003 00:13:56 +0000

The Rapid train is scheduled to depart Chiang Mai at 9:30 p.m., but by 10 it has not arrived from the south. A bell is rung to herald its arrival, and when it pulls in, it is swabbed down and swept...

Loy Krathong

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:34:14 +0000

Loy Krathong is a special festival celebration in Thailand in November. Float your sorrows away and release your hopes and dreams into the heavens.

Sex Tours de Force

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:06:24 +0000

The globalization of prostitution has many the same characteristics and reasons for being as the globalization of other . . . industries. The author examines sex tourism in Thailand.

Traditional Thai Houses

Anonymous — Mon, 26 May 2003 09:44:26 +0000

For about a year, near the walled city of Chiang Mai, I lived in a house on meter-high stilts. The house was made of unpainted, dark-brown wood. Its windows were mostly small, and all had shutters -...

Silent Retreat at Seven Fountains

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:49:47 +0000

Chiang Mai is laid back, quiet and its people friendly. Along a busy (well, at least in Chiang Mai terms) thoroughfare of restaurants, shops, night markets and the Chiang University reside the Seven...

Teaching English in Chiang Mai

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:53:28 +0000

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

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

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 07:52:16 +0000

Every Thai municipality worth mentioning has a fresh market. In a way, the market defines the municipality, and only recently have the 7-11s and Kodak Expresses and Panasonic electronics shops cropped...

Man the Tubs! Termites Invade Thailand!

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:56:06 +0000

In the course of a correspondence with the headmaster of the school ultimately responsible for bringing me to Thailand, I received an e-mail containing words along these lines: Sorry to be brief, but...

A Northern Thai Primer

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:31:58 +0000

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

Confessions of a Chiang Mai Barfly

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:12:24 +0000

* * * * * Drinking alcohol is, of course, a loathsome vice, and all right-thinking and up-standing people shun John Barleycorn lest morals break down and the world "plunge into ruin" - to borrow the...

Why She Couldn't Make Change from a Big Bill

awen — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:53:34 +0000

When one withdraws money from an ATM in Thailand, the machine dispenses 1000 baht bills. ฿1000 is equivalent to about US$30 and in a country where the daily (not hourly) minimum wage is ฿300, about US$9, it is often difficult to use big bills for small purchases with local businesses, street vendors, taxis, etc. They simply don’t have that kind of money around and, when they do, are understandably reluctant to relinquish their smaller bills.

Northern delights - in search of Kao Soi

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:50:06 +0000

Of all the wonderfully exotic foods in Thailand nothing strikes a chord like the mention of Kao Soi. A dish of deceptive simplicity it is capable of warming the soul when the cool season mornings...

An Abolitionist for Elephants

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:16:01 +0000

Lek, director of Chiang Mai's Elephant Nature Park and a National Geographic "Heroine for the Planet", is going to be a mother - of sorts. One of her elephants is pregnant, and she is as nervous and...

Learning the Thai Language

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:10:53 +0000

Westerners in Thailand take up the study of the country's language to a degree unprecedented in my experience abroad. Chiang Mai, arguably the traveler's favorite town, overflows with Thai language...

Muay Thai: The "Invincible" Martial Art of Thailand

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:10:28 +0000

The village of Chang Khien, hard by the old city of Chiang Mai, is home to the Lanna Muay Thai training camp for would-be practitioners of the ancient art of Muay Thai, or Thai boxing. Surprisingly,...