Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chang Rai

Chang Rai is the city northeast of Chang Mai which will always be in the shade of Chang Mai. Less pagodas and less tourists maybe make it an authentic northern Thailand city. After arriving with the boat we went to an guesthouse a bit outside the city. Only after we checked in we found out that there is a huge construction site just next door. So we changed after one night to the center. There we met a thai guy who spoke perfectly english because he works for Thai Airways and mostly overseas in the states. He gave some in depth insight on the Thai culture, their king, transverstites etc. But he also gave us a lot of wine and cool stories about the fact of working for an international airway. A flight from London to New York costs him 2 USD but the taxi to the city center 40 USD. It was good fun. Otherwise Chang Rai is a pretty odd city with few sights. The best picture I found is this clocktower.

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