http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles your free content resource Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:38:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rafting the Mae Tang can be a hair raising experience but it's certain to be one of the most exciting things you do in Thailand. It’s been raining cats and Buddhas for the past three days, but today the sun is already beating down on us and it’s only 10am. But ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/06/27/rafting-the-mae-tang-river-in-chiang-mai/ One of the most popular activities for many visitors to Northern Thailand is a trek to one of the many hill tribe villages. Photos of these minority groups are regularly splashed all over tourist brochures and internet sites. Tour groups are a daily feature in some of the villages as ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/06/22/northern-thailand%e2%80%99s-most-colourful-hill-tribe/ By Andrew Bond (18 June 2009) If you went looking for the steepest road in Thailand you probably need venture no further than 40kms east of Chiang Mai to the small eco-tourism village of Mae Kampong, located on the side of the Doi Mon Larn range. While most visitors to Chiang ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/06/21/the-quaint-village-of-mae-kampong/ Like a big cosy duvet, mist shrouds the valley far below us. Away in the distance, a crowing cockerel gets the Hmong villagers out of bed, but the only other sound is the crunch of our bike tyres on the gravel track. With a soft click of gears, our group ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/06/16/northern-thailand-by-mountain-bike/ Jane Burrows spent a week on meditation retreat at Wat Tham Doi Dawn, a forest retreat southwest of Chiang Mai, and recounts her experience. Many visitors come to Thailand to fulfil their imagination. They come to stuff their mental photo album full of impressions and memories. Perhaps they go home with ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/06/11/meditation-retreat-in-chiang-mai/ Doi Angkhang really is at the precipice of a wild frontier. I discovered this when our press trip rolled up at an army lookout point somewhere on the roof of Thailand, and there before us was the sweeping hermit-like expanse of Myanmar. Only a small saddle separated us from the ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/06/06/exploring-doi-angkhang-in-northern-thailand/ by Andrew Bond (27 May 2009) Late in the afternoon, as the travellers rose from their afternoon slumbers and the heat dissipated I sat beside the small Pai river while it quietly gushes through Northern Thailand’s most chilled out destination, and reflected on a week of doing nothing but relaxing. As the ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/05/30/the-bohemian-town-of-pai/ by Andrew Bond Nothing beats mother nature for design and waterfalls are some of the loveliest examples of how mountains, water and gravity can combine to produce some breathtaking sights. Northern Thailand certainly has the mountains, and plenty of water, which together produce some of the country’s loveliest waterfalls. In fact ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/05/20/chiang-mai%e2%80%99s-stunning-waterfalls/ by Andrew Bond Life for most people in Thailand still revolves around the local market. And the large majority who still follow a traditional way of life will bracket their day with visits to the market in the early morning and at dusk. For them the market is a social opportunity, ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/05/15/chiang-mai%e2%80%99s-bustling-markets/ by Chester J Crocker Think ‘Chiang Mai’ and images of mountains and waterfalls come to mind. First time visitors might be forgiven for thinking that Chiang Mai’s key attractions and activities include temple tours and trekking, and that the Northern culture is defined by colourfully dressed hill tribe folk and an ... http://www.emedia-asia.org/travelarticles/2009/05/05/baan-tawai-in-chiang-mai-%e2%80%93-a-shopper%e2%80%99s-haven/