The road from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai is 150 km. It takes over three hours to drive between the two cities because there is lots of construction, slowdowns for small towns, and windy hilly roads. The scenery is amazing especially at points as the road winds through the northern Thai mountains. While in Chang…

With the political instability and travel recommendations against visiting Pakistan at this time we made alternative plans instead and elected to travel to Northern Thailand. We hope to be able to travel again with Huma and Aftab to see their beautiful country and sincerely hope the peace and safety come to Pakistan soon. It was…

We rented a car to travel to the Kui Buri National Park for a half day elephant Safari. Although this national park does not allow any hiking it provides a unique opportunity to see beautiful landscape and it is the best place to spot elephants in the wild. We shared our tour with a Canadian…

On the final day of Songkran, we travel to Bangkok as we were planning to go to the Canadian Embassy to collect and submit our electoral ballots. It was pouring rain that day, because we were staying in a hotel, and had already experienced the full frenzy of Songkran we were hopeful to avoid the…

Following what felt like a very long flight between Auckland, New Zealand and Bangkok, we finally arrived in Thailand. Because we were heading west the flights were during daytime hours, meaning very little sleep to help the time pass. We were grateful to arrive at our hotel in Bangkok at midnight and surprised when we…

We were very lucky to experience the Buddhist/Hindu celebration of Songkran, known as the Water Festival in honour of the Thai New Year, while staying in Hua Hin.  This festival, celebrated widely throughout Southeast Asia is based on a Zodiac calendar, it has strong religious, cultural and family components.  In recent years it has been…

We rented a car for a few days for a short road trip to explore some of western Thailand. Our goal was to reach Kaeng Krachan, the largest national park in Thailand, it boarders Myanmar and it has been declared a UNESCO world Heritage site. We are saddened by the terrible recent earthquake in Myanmar,…

We had a little bit later start to the day on that we had planned as Sophie was working on a food science project (which we all enjoyed for lunch). On our way to the park we check the time discovering it closed at 3 PM which was the time Google map estimated we would…

This was a fantastic day trip, although we were frustrated that they could not give us a more specific time for pick up. We waited for 30 minutes in very hot sun at the gate of our complex. The 1 hour travel time to the rescue was was made more interesting by a couple who…