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The Beer Garden from the Guest House
Direct in the heart of Chiang Mai City you will recognize the Garden Restaurant and Guest House. This Guest House in north Thailand offer cheap and good rooms for backpacker and tourists. Here you can relax in a cozy beer garden by an international or local beer while you watch the busy Walking Street on every Sunday. The friendly staff offers a good service and helps you for any kind of booking around Chiang Mai. The Garden Guest House & Beer Garden in Chiang Mai is a good address as well for people who plan a long stay visit. Ask the management for special conditions if you stay longer than one week. From here is everything easy to reach here in this great town in Thailand. Enjoy the familiar and relaxed atmosphere at this great place in Chiang Mai Town!
The Ratchadumnern Cafe @ Chiang Mai
Direct in the center of Chiang Mai City on the Walking Street is the Ratchadumnern Café which offer many Italian and international Coffee specialties. I come here sometimes to enjoy a good cup of hot cappuccino when I stay in Chiang Mai. The Café house opposite of the CM police station is a great location to take a break if you are on shopping tour on the Walking Street Market which is every Sunday. Here you have the choice of hot and ice coffee, smoothies, fruit shakes and many more delicious specialties. The Ratchadumnern Café in north Thailand offer free Wi-Fi wireless internet and a nice air conditioned location direct in Chiang Mai. Come here to surf a bit on Travel Reports & Pictures by a great coffee.
Night Bazaar
The Night Bazaar in Chiang Mai
The Night Bazaar in Chiang Mai offers many handicraft products, t-shirts, and other souvenirs. This market near the Loi Khro road should be the main attraction of Chiang Mai in north Thailand. Every evening from about six o’clock there are hundreds of booths who offer beautiful and handmade souvenirs of the hill tribes from this part of Thailand. Another reason to come here is the food. Many booth offer delicious Thai, Isaan, Indian… food for a good price. As well the cheap fruit shakes are cheap and very healthy. If you like western food than should be O’Malley’s Irish Pub or Daddys Restaurant the right choice for you. Take the bait of the exhalation around the food area of this historical market. On the Night Bazaar you will find for sure the right souvenirs of your trip to north Thailand.
Walking Street Market
Walking Street in Chiang Mai
Every Sunday afternoon till late is in central Chiang Mai a big market direct in the center of this great city in Thailand. The whole Ratchadamnoen road from Tha Phae to Wat Phrasingh is close for cars, bikes and scooters. This is a perfect bargain for tourists who like to buy some handicrafts of the hill tribes, handmade adornments and many other souvenirs. The temple markets around the market offer nice and cheap local food. If you like to rest by a fresh coffee than you are right at Black Canyon, Doi Chaang or the Ratchadamnoen Cafe in the middle of the market. For fresh juices and healthy drinks i can recommend the Juice Box on the Ratchadumnern street. This market is a nice option to walk a bit on every Sunday in Chiang Mai as well when you don’t want to buy something. If you stay at Chiang Mai in Thailand on a weekend it’s a “must see” sight for all backpackers and tourist who stay here for traveling or on holidays. The Walking Street in CM is my favorite market here in Chiang Mai and in whole Thailand.
Today we drove around Chiang Mai to manage some thinks. First we went to make some pictures for a passport for Moun with her new name. Than we go to the government building in Chiang Mai to make the passport, after we went to breakfast in a small traditional Thai Restaurant. After breakfast we went to the Thai language center to get some information’s about a Thai course. Right now we staying at our guest house here in north Thailand and relax for a while. In the afternoon we will go to look some temples and after we visit friend at the Café Del Sol Bar in Central Chiang Mai.
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Cafe del Sol, Chiang Mai
The easy going establishment Café Del Sol at Chiang Mai City in north Thailand is a small and cozy Bar with a lot of atmosphere and good music. The Bar in Thailand offer Cocktails, Beers and other beverages for a fair price in Chiang Mai’s Night Life scene. From while to while the Sticky Rice Blues Band make a stop here and play some great concerts at the Café del Sol stage. If it is not raining you can relax by a Chang Beer or a Long Island Ice Tea under a huge tree on the terrace of the bar in Chiang Mai. When here is no live music you can listen to good chosen music from CD. Reggae, Blues, Classics, Rock ‘n Roll… the Café Del Sol Bar has for everybody the right mix who likes handmade music. Come in for a drink and feel the spirit of Chiang Mai. A great establishment for Night Life in Chiangmai!
Today we travel from Chiang Mai to Pai. We just arrived at Stone Free Bungalows and we are tired. On Monday we came from Koh Chang to Bangkok by minivan where we had a bus conection to CM. In the morning we moved all our thinks from the Winner Inn Hotel to our new room near the German School in Chiang Mai City. Yesterday we arranged everythink: looking for a new home for the next months, take a look at our schools and meet some friends in CM. Now we (Moun and I) stay at Pai in north Thailands Mae Hong Son Province to make some days holidays till we start to study next month.
Winner Inn, Chiang Mai
The Winner Inn Hotel in Chiang Mai is located next to the city wall and not far from the night market of this historical town in north Thailand. We checked in to this accommodation two times, our first time on our Pai – Chiang Mai Travel Trip and the first two nights when we came here for study. The low budget offer clean rooms with Air-Condition, Telephone, TV, fridge, hot water shower and a bath tub for a cheap backpacker price. We paid in the middle of 2009 600 Thai Baht. Next to the reception of this travel accommodation in Chiang Mai is a small restaurant which offers drinks snacks and Breakfast in the morning. To the night bazaar it’s a walk of round about 20 minutes or 5 minutes with the motorbike. Winner Inn in Chiang Mai is the right option for all who don’t want to spend so much money but don’t want to miss a good hotel service. On the reception you can book as well tours and transport too many destinations in Thailand and around the Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son Province.
Some friends ask me many time what are you doing all day, in this new tag of my Travel blog I try to give some answers and maybe open a window to other traveler and tourists why and how I’m living on the island Koh Chang in Thailand. First I want to answer the most asked question of travelers who I meet here in Thailand and South East Asia: Why you are living in Thailand? I cannot answer this question to 100 percent. After some traveling and holidays around the world I came back to Germany and don’t fell at home. Till me was 18 I done a lot of holidays in many countries in Europe: Norway, England, Holland, Belgium, of course Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Spain, Denmark and Greece. With 18 I was the first time out of Europe in Morocco and South Africa. In 2004 and 2005 I spent some time in America for holidays, the Dominican Republic and Mexico Yucatan was my destinations. 2006 was my first time in Asia; I traveled with a friend to Patong Beach in South Thailand for holidays. We spend here two weeks at the Phuket Graceland 5Star resort. Our first day was crazy; after we arrived we walked into the busy town on the 13th of April: Songkran Water festival! After we finish our high school in 2006 I spent 2 month with a friend in Thailand for a backpack tour through south and central Thailand, we traveled a lot. Nearly every two days we were sitting in a bus to change our destination till we were landed on Koh Chang in the Gulf of Thailand. On Koh Chang we spend our last three weeks before we went home at Thale Bungalows at Klong Prao Beach. A half year later I was back again, for 1,5 month I spend my holidays here at this beautiful place. Already in the plane I was sure that I don’t want to go back to Germany. I missed Thailand, especially Koh Chang too much. It becomes already my home. In the beginning of 2007 I quit everything in Europe to come back here. The first year I traveled a lot through South East Asia: Malaysia Peninsular, Singapore and Bali were my second big travel tour. On this trip the scuba diving become a big hobby of mine, my first license I did already on my holiday in Thailand in 2006. Click here for some scuba pictures! In the end of 2007 I start to make my Divemaster. I enjoyed the tropical diving here on this beautiful Island. But the main reason why I’m here are the lifestyle of the people and of course my wife from Nong Han who I meet in middle of 07 in Thailand.
Next week we are going up to Chiang Mai and Pai to look for a small apartment for the next month. In the beginning of July we start to learn. Moun learn German and I learn Thai.
Here at the Travel Diary Tag you will find from while to while some reports from traveling in Southeast Asia and from my life in Thailand. I hope you enjoy.
Lounge on the International Airport in BKK
The Airline Bangkok Airways is famous for many domestic connections in Thailand. The hub of Asia’s boutique airline is Thailand’s Capital Bangkok. From here you get nearly everywhere in Thailand: Phuket, Koh Samui, Sukhothai and much more destinations. Bangkok Airways flight as well to some international destinations like Phnom Penh in Cambodia. I was flying from Bangkok to Trat to travel to Koh Chang with this Airline. Is a nice option to the bus if you come from Europe or elsewhere in world. For the brake on the international Airport in Bangkok there is a lounge as well for economy passengers with some food, hot and cold drinks and good service. A nice place to relax from your intercontinental flight before. The service on board of this airline is friendly like everywhere if you fly with an Asian Airline. I can recommend to travel with Bangkok Airways for domestic flights in Thailand and international flights in South East Asia.
Climbing Wall
In Mai 09 I was at South Germany to visit a good friend who I meet on Koh Chang in Thailand and go to a AC/DC concert on the Hockenheimring in Baden Wurttemberg. On Monday after the concert we go to a climbing park called Stetten. It was my first experience in this direction. The best way to come here is by car. If you don’t know the way from the park ground to the wall is hard to find. When you come here for climbing the best way is to get some information before you arrive. It is not possible to rent equipments over there so bring everything what you need as well food and drinks. Here at the climbing park in Stetten you will find 8-9 meter high sandstone walls with different demand. I had a lot of fun and it was a good experience especially with my fear to the high.
