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spiderbraidsYesterday, I posted my pictures from my visit to the Royal Flora Exhibition in 2006... Besides the exhbition itself, we spent a few more days milling about the north (plus a brief excursion into Myanmar!)
Sunrise the next day
Hot springs in Chiang Rai
And where there's hot springs, there'll always be vendors selling eggs to boil in the springs :-)
Rong Khun Temple in Chiang Rai, famous for being all-white (it would be damaged in an earthquake in 2014)
Next stop: Mae Sai, the northernmost town of Thailand, for a quick hop over to Tachileik, Myanmar :-)
Despite the Thai signage on the Coca-Cola cart and the Dee Koon leather shop, this is actually the Myanmar side, as it would have already been illegal on the Thai side to sell cigarettes in the open... Such is the popularity of cross border trade that there is plenty of Thai signage in the market
Wide shot of the Tachileik market...
...before returning to Thai territory (and note the then-still-current Myanmar flag, before it was replaced 4 years later)
Mae Sai river marking the boundary: Myanmar on the left, Thailand on the right
Not the Shweda Gong, but the somewhat similar looking pagoda at Chom Thong Temple :-)
The "kissing cliffs" of Orb Luang...
...and the stream below
And we finish with this curio from Lampang on the way back: an upside-down pagoda, delivered via the magic of the camera obscura :-)
The original pagoda
Sunrise the next day
Hot springs in Chiang Rai
And where there's hot springs, there'll always be vendors selling eggs to boil in the springs :-)
Rong Khun Temple in Chiang Rai, famous for being all-white (it would be damaged in an earthquake in 2014)
Next stop: Mae Sai, the northernmost town of Thailand, for a quick hop over to Tachileik, Myanmar :-)
Despite the Thai signage on the Coca-Cola cart and the Dee Koon leather shop, this is actually the Myanmar side, as it would have already been illegal on the Thai side to sell cigarettes in the open... Such is the popularity of cross border trade that there is plenty of Thai signage in the market
Wide shot of the Tachileik market...
...before returning to Thai territory (and note the then-still-current Myanmar flag, before it was replaced 4 years later)
Mae Sai river marking the boundary: Myanmar on the left, Thailand on the right
Not the Shweda Gong, but the somewhat similar looking pagoda at Chom Thong Temple :-)
The "kissing cliffs" of Orb Luang...
...and the stream below
And we finish with this curio from Lampang on the way back: an upside-down pagoda, delivered via the magic of the camera obscura :-)
The original pagoda
