Hmong New Year Festival
If I hadn’t followed a Facebook group for expats in Chiang Mai, I’d never have known about the Hmong New Year festival taking place for Chiang Mai’s hill tribes. I More… →
Tag Archives: Chiang Mai
Bo Sang – the umbrella village
A village dedicated to making umbrellas – crazy, huh? They’re not even very useful umbrellas since they’re made of paper! Bo Sang lies out on the eastern fringes of Chiang More… →
Chiang Mai life
About a week after we moved into Doi Ping Mansion, the residents’ Christmas party took place. Food contributions were invited, but it seemed that drink would be provided – sure More… →
Settling in to Chiang Mai
Once again Air Asia proved the cheapest way to get from A to B, in this case Kuala Lumpur to Chiang Mai, in half the time and at half the More… →
How to get a Chinese tourist visa in Chiang Mai
Getting a Chinese tourist visa in Chiang Mai I originally planned on getting our Chinese visas in Hong Kong – it was supposed to be quite easy. But then I More… →
How to Extend a Thai Tourist Visa in Chiang Mai in 2016
Visa regulations in Thailand seem to change every other month, the official government websites are not very informative even when they are in English, and each immigration office seems to More… →
Getting an Indian tourist visa in Bangkok
Like many long term travellers, we had been planning to get an Indian tourist visa in Bangkok – at least for 3 months if we couldn’t score a 6-month one. More… →