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Feeling At Home in Chiang Mai

Travelers beware. They say that if you arrive in Chiang Mai for the first time by train, you will...

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The Chinese woman sitting next to me on the flight from Tokyo to Detroit just can't stay in her s...

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A White in the Jungle

Review of Jungle White by Stephen Paul Cohen.

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Nine Indispensable Places in Chiang Mai

One of the nicest things about living in Chiang Mai is, simply put, its density. One is always di...

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Songkran: Wet and Wild in Thailand...

It was a hot day, the temperature considered high even by Thai standards. We were so wet, however...

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Dining Out in Chiang Mai: The Author Shares His Prejudices

Mexican, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, German, English, Indian, and, of course, American, whatever ...

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Smoking Poppies and Ignorant Boors

There is a seemingly growing trend in modern literature that I, a writer living abroad, feel obli...

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Zen and the Art of Motor-Sai Maintenance

Ever since I read Robert Pirsig's epochal novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (and re...

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A dramatic mountain-top backdrop and more than 300 temples may not be enough to stop Thailand's n...

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Red Rose of the North

The Red Rose Hotel of Chiang Rai, Thailand. Imagine Motel 6 crossed with Disneyworld.

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Notes on Noodles

Fetching about for one thing that typifies actual daily life in Thailand, as opposed to the kind ...

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Northern Thailand is lush hill country. Chiang Mai, the largest city in the north, is the perfect base for exploring the northern hills. The nearby hills are home to six distinct hilltribes. The Akha, Karen, Lisu, Yao, Hmong and Lahu each have their own language and culture. These 540000 tribal people lead remote lives and are often considered outsiders among the Thai. Many of the villages have limited electricity and no indoor plumbing; homes are made of bamboo and thatched roofs. Most tribesmen depend on farming for their livelihood, and villages migrate between the steep hills of China, Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam whenever the soil at their present location is depleted.

Hilltribes of Northern Thailand

A story told with photos.

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