Chiang Rai Guide: Overview, Hotels & Travel Writing

Where the Girls Are | Graham Reid | Thailand, The North, Chiang Rai

Pale fingers of mist weave through the tree tops of the jungle. At just past dawn it is almost silent, only the faint call of birds and the distant putter of a long-tail boat on the Mekong River beyond the hill

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Voluntourism in Thailand | Julie Miller | Thailand, The North, Chiang Rai

I huddled silently in the chilly mountain air, listening to the angelic tones of Achu, a 16-year-old scholarship student, singing love songs in her local Ahka tongue

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Elephant Conservation | Julie Miller | Thailand, The North, Chiang Rai

A trunk is a truly fascinating appendage. On my first close encounter with the elephants, I was inquiringly groped on the left breast, a refreshingly direct greeting which immediately endeared me to its pachyderm bearer

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