Durian. Aka the “King of Fruits”. Aka the “Stinky Fruit”. The descriptions precede this fruit. The fruit, despite being very popular to eat in Asia, has been banned from many public places including public transportation. I’ve heard the smell compared to stale baby’s vomit, rotting corpses and a sewer. So…
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When we arrived in Chiang Mai, we saw fish spas around town. Upon telling the kids what it was about, they both wanted to do it and harassed us repeatedly till we did one. I found one shop near the Tha Phae Gate on the eastern wall of the Old…
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One of the things I wanted to take the kids to was a silk factory. Funny enough, the materials I’m using to homeschool actually talked about silk in Asia and how silk is made. So I was able to tie a trip to Thai Silk Village into an educational opportunity…
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One fun little diversion for us was a visit to the Siam Insect Zoo. It’s about 30 minutes out of town, near Mae Rim, Tiger Kingdom and a bunch of other attractions. There’s a decent butterfly garden, a section where you see lots of insect specimens pinned, mounted, and labeled,…
