• Yee Peng (Sky Lantern Festival)

    November 16, 2013 - By 

    At the top our list when we decided to come to Chiang Mai was attending the Yee Peng festival.  Once I saw the pictures and video of this event from fellow bloggers, I knew I had to attend.  In fact, this festival was one of the reasons we stuck with…

  • Road Trip Disaster (and Recovery)

    November 14, 2013 - By 

    In early October, we did our second border run to the Myanmar border at Mae Sai, which is about 4 1/2 hours from Chiang Mai.  We drove up to Chiang Rai the first day, then planned to do our crossing on day 2, hit the Monkey & Fish Cave right…

  • 3D Art Museum

    November 8, 2013 - By 

    Recently a 3D art museum called Art in Paradise opened in Chiang Mai.  The pictures people posted on TripAdvisor looked pretty cool so we finally went to check it out for ourselves. It’s not cheap especially for Thailand standards: 300 Baht ($10) for adults and 200 Baht ($7) for kids. …

  • Meditation Retreat – Kirsten’s Experience

    November 5, 2013 - By 

    Chuck went to the meditation retreat the week before I did and had such a good experience that it seemed like I should go too.  So the following Tuesday, off I went. At the beginning, you sit in room and learn about Buddhism and some basics on meditation and how…