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Poy Sang Long and Parade – Wat Pa Pao
Following hot on the heels of last weeks Poy Sang Long celebrations at Wat Ku Tao tomorrow sees the start of festivities at Wat Pa Pao, on Manee Nopparat Road (outer road on North Side of moat) near Sriphum corner. You can find both Wat’s on our google map Poy Sang Long Procession The festivities […]
Travel Warning – Chiang Mai Night Bazaar
I want to ask my friends to be very careful now in Chiang Mai. From reports I heard that the notorious “Sleaze Alley” at the Night Bazzar has become very dangerous with many young hill tribe boys on drugs hanging about there. “Sleaze Alley” is the small soi of run down beer bars off Thapae […]
Shan State Earthquake Relief project
The Best Friend Library, based in Chiang Mai is already up and running with a fundraising and relief project for victims of last week’s earthquake in Shan State. With the death toll almost certainly already over two hundred, the Burmese government seem to be doing nothing other than mount a cover up and block the […]
Poy Sang Long Festival
If you’re visiting Chiang Mai this weekend the Go-Go bars are likely not the best place to go. Most of our friends who work in Chiang Mai’s commercial gay venues are Tai Yai refugees from the Shan State in South East Burma and today marks the start of a three day Tai festival of Poy […]
Earthquake in Shan State
A strong Earthquake has hit the Eastern Shan State causing major damage and widespread deaths and injuries. The main tremor registers 6.7 on the Richter scale and was clearly felt in Chiang Mai along with a series of aftershocks. Data from TMD website Date Time Magnitude Depth Mar 25, 2011 07:22 4.9 40 Mar 24, […]
Note’s Birthday
It’s that time of year again. Yes, today is my birthday and don’t dare even think about asking how old I am! To celebrate I went with a couple of the Bontong Boys to Doi Mae Salong in the very north of Thailand close to the border with Burma. Doi Mae Salong, also known as […]
Free Guy Club – Same Same but different
The temperature has risen, the pollution is coming, school’s out for summer and everyone seems to have left town. Everywhere the same this week, lonely venue owners, propping up their own bar’s and crying in their beer 😉 Not helped by Chiang Mai having been visited by some of Bangkok’s finest, doing the annual rounds […]
The dangers of living in Chiang Mai
Sometimes you read a story which reminds you that Chiang Mai, or the Rose of the North is not quite the Paradise you believed it was. In this case villans and bad luck seem to have struck for our friends at Thai Eyes. Apparently their house was attacked in the early morning hours, they were […]
Shan State and Burma updates
Many of our friends in Chiang Mai come from the Shan State in south east Burma. Here are some news updates from various Burma related sites: ‘Today Shan State is already a separate country’ Monday, 14 February 2011 Mizzima News. Lieutenant General Yawd Serk, the leader of the Shan State Army-South, talks with Mizzima. Jai […]
The end of an era at the Garden Bar
Last night saw the end of an era for the Garden Bar at Lotus Hotel with the departure of the long serving and ex pat community’s favourite bar tender Khun Tee. After many years of faithful service for Mohammed, the dependable Khun Tee is off back to Burma to help run the family farm. Many […]