North Thailand

Chiang Rai City is 200 kilometres northeast of Chiang Mai City, 62 kilometres south of Mae Sai and the Burmese border; 60 kilometres southwest of the town of Chiang Saen on the Mae Kong across from Laos; and 90 kilometres north of Payao town. The Mae Kok River runs along Chiang Rai’s north side, flowing …

Founded as an independent state in the 13th century, Nan became part of the Lanna Kingdom in 140. cheap paint . From 1558 it was under Burmese sovereignty and, after the foreign occupiers were finally expended in 1786, it pledged allegiance to the nations new capital, Bangkok, although its own ruling dynasty was allowed to …

Chiang Mai is the most popular touristic city of Northern Thailand. Founded in 1296 AD, Chiang Mai is a culturally and historically interesting city, at one time the capital of the ancient Lanna kingdom. Located among the rolling foothills of the Himalayan Mountains 700 km north of Bangkok, it could only be reached by an …