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Explore the Golden Triangle – A road trip to Northern Thailand – part 1
Phuket – Bangkok, what to expect on the road. My trip to the Golden Triangle started on the 11th December 2021; at that time, I had been locked up in Phuket for almost 2 years due to COVID. Of course, I know there could be much worse places to be locked up than Phuket. I…
Golden triangle, Mai Sai and Tachileik.
The 2 Cities, Tachileik on the Burmese side of the border and Mai Sai on the Thai side of the border is a part of the golden triangle. This video has English subtitles if they do not show when the video starts, you have to click the options on in the Video frame. The golden…
Chiang Mai old city moat
Chiang Mai old city was founded 1296 around and it was built as a walled city surrounded by a moat, which you can still see the remains of today. Most of the walls have collapsed, or the bricks have been used for other constructions in Chiang Mai, but the corner towers still stand almost intact. Each…
Wat Umong
The land of Wat Umong covers more than 37 rais of land mostly covered in woods. Wat Umong means the tunnel temple, Wat= temple, and Umong=tunnel. The temple date back to 1297 where it was built by the Lanna King Manglai. The most famous attraction at the temple is its tunnels. The legend says the…
San Kamphaeng Hot Springs
From old times San Kamphaeng Hot Springs was grassland, the people used the hot springs, and wells for bathing and boiling bamboo shoot… In the start of the 1970s when the oil prices were high, because of the worldwide oil crisis, the Thai government have an idea that it could use San Kamphaeng Hot Springs to…
Wat Phra Singh
The full name is Wat Phra Singh Woramahaviharn. It was King Phayo the fifth king of the Mangrai dynasty that founded Chiang Mai, who started the construction of Wat Phra Singh in 1345. Later came all the other buildings. The reason why he wanted to build the temple, is the same reason as to why many…
