This the last entry in my traveloguem to start from the beginning, read here. Ok, let me finish off this travelogue before the year ends, it has been more than a month since the trip. Day 7 marks the end of a week in Northern Thailand. Today, we drove off to Mae Taeng Elephant camp. This is more than an hour’s drive outside the city. The last trip here in 2005 we went to Maesa Elephant Park, which is much much nearer compared to Mae Taeng, but Calvin our guide says that Mae Taeng being surrounded by the jungle, is a better elephant camp. Besides, he says that the new…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the very beginning, click here. I’ve reached the limit of my Flickr upload for the month, so i’m temporarily using my old Photobucket account. Day 6 is the 2nd of our 4 days in the city of Chiang Mai after the long roundabout sojourn to the Northern region. It starts as usual with brekkie at CH Hotel. A word about this hotel. It’s quite popular due to it being right next to the Night Market, but our stay there was regrettable. The hotel is old and pretty rundown. They are planning to do an interior refurbishing, so make sure you…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the very beginning, go here. Day 5! We’re halfway through our vacation, today we are going to the Golden triangle in the morning the laterdriving the long way down from Maesai back down to Chiang Mai via Chiang Rai. This journey of 200km should take about 3 or 4 hours, but we’ve lined up some interesting stops along the way. First thing to do after packing up our stuff in the hotel is to have a good breakfast. There are lots of good street food in Maesai and Chiang Mai available for breakfast around our hotel, but we always opt…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, click here. Day 4, start of our first day in Maesai, the small little town at the top of Thailand. By now, we’re used to Thailand time, meaning that our we were starting to wake up at a more respectable hour. Usually about 8am local time. Piyaporn Place Hotel is a pretty nice hotel, nothing fancy, but they have good breakfast (although the seating area is quite small). Breakfast is usually fried rice or fried noodles, plus the staple sausages and sunny side up eggs. While Maesai is still quite high in terms of altitude (although not as…

This is an ongoing travelogue on my travels in North Thailand. To start at the beginning, go here. A third day in Thailand, our body clocks are still on Malaysia time, meaning we still woke up at around 6am local time. But its a good time to take photos of the glorious sunrise. Dusk to dawn is pretty cold here, altho it isn’t as cold as mid winter. The Lt. Col. told us that this year’s winter is so severe it might even snow in Thailand for the first time decades, but I don’t really think it will happen. This hotel has decent complimentary breakfast, so our whole clan went…

This is the second part in a continuing travelogue series. For the first part read here. Day 2 started bright and early, we took an early morning hike around our beautiful resort and took more pics before breakfast. Beautiful flowers everywhere. For breakfast we took a short drive to Chiang Dao town. This is a very small town, with military training camp nearby. There are no tourists here, but our tour guide extraordinaire Calvin brought us to an excellent local restaurant. It looks our local warong, except that its much cleaner. They cooked noodles and rice and other Thai pastries for breakfast, Calvin recommended we try the pad Thai. It…