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: Thailand
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 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 a Thai tourist visa in Kuala Lumpur
The Thai tourist visa situation changed on 12 November 2015, so all references on the internet to double and triple entry visas are now obsolete. The only tourist visas issued 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… →
Bangkok Business
Sunset over Wat Arun, Bangkok We were both quite glad to leave India. That’s not something I ever expected to say, but the dirt, litter and crowds of northern India More… →
Getting a Myanmar Visa in Bangkok
The main reason we were in Thailand was to get a Myanmar visa in Bangkok. Getting visas is never fun, but this was the least fun we’d had for a More… →