{We spent the afternoon at the waterfalls with Aurelien’s sister who put most of this post together for us.} Eastern Thailand is not going to be found on many tourists’ itineraries, except perhaps for a trip to the island of Koh Chang. Thus our visit to the Chantaburi area gave us a chance to see […]
According to Trip Advisor there are 1,216 restaurants in Chiang Mai. In the thirty days that we were living there, we barely scratched the surface. Writing this blog post three months after our time in Chiang Mai, I can say that Chiang Mai, compared to other parts of Thailand (and maybe the world?), has some […]
I signaled my “okay” to our instructor Lynsey, lifted up my BCD tube, pressed the button to release the air and slowly started my descent to the crystal clear ocean floor. All around me was life. I felt like I was in a life-sized aquarium. The plants growing on the coral reef were gently waving […]
One of our favorite places to eat in Chiang Mai was the Chiang Mai Gate Market. We ended up choosing the apartment we stayed at because we wanted to be within walking distance of a market, and we were very happy we were close to Chiang Mai Gate. Just a 10 minute walk brought us to […]
We love Thai food and cooking, so before we landed in Thailand we knew that we wanted to take a Thai cooking class. Fortunately, Chiang Mai is full of cooking classes so we had many to choose from. We ended up picking Asia Scenic cooking school because some fellow vegetarian travelers, Simon and Erin from […]
On a cloudy morning on the way back from Laos to Chiang Mai, Aurelien and I stopped at the White Temple (Wat Rong Khun) in Chiang Rai (not to be confused with Chiang Mai). The White Temple is a contemporary Buddhist temple created by Ajarn Chalermchai Kosipipatin in 1997. Kosipipation studied all of the modern […]
