I’ve been fascinated by Spirit Houses (“san phra phum”) since our very first visit to Thailand. They are miniature shrines placed outside homes, offices, hotels, shops, and important outdoor places to shelter the guardian spirit of the land. Their roots go back to animist beliefs about…
Sharing Thailand with our 13-year-old granddaughters was a great joy. Thailand is at the very top of our “favorite places” list. We have visited on over 30 occasions for business and pleasure. We hosted 4 Thailand trips with our clients in the past, trips with our…
Waiting for our guide “Nop” to take us on our tour of temples on Doi Suthep and a visit to see the elephants. He was our guide with the grandsons in 2023. Our guide, “Nop”, explains about Lanna culture and Buddhism. Vibrant, Lanna flags, known as…
Chiang Mai has always had a special place in our travel hearts. We’ve traveled here with our daughters, and 2019 & 2023 trips with our grandchildren,…and this year with our granddaughters. We’ve hosted trips to Chiang Mai with our clients on 3 occasions. The…
Bangkok welcomes over 30 million visitors a year! There is truly so much to see and do. You have gorgeous ornate temples, ultra modern shopping centers, tasty street food and bustling markets. The Chao Phraya River is Thailand’s most important waterway, flowing for over 230 miles from…
Our Bangkok explorations continue with a simply superb lunch at the beautiful Blue Elephant Restaurant on Sathorn Road. It occupies a historically significant Thai-Chinese building, originally a department store. The building served as the Japanese Army’s Command Center during World War ll. The Blue Elephant Restaurant…
Bangkok is a truly amazing city and one of my favorites. After 25 visits we still make new discoveries on each visit. We are planning to take our twin granddaugters there next year. Our plane from Singapore was very extremely late arriiving in Bankok, but our fabulous guide, Victor had…
The heat and touring in Thailand and Cambodia with the grandsons was wearing us all down a bit. We were ready for some R & R. We flew on Bangkok Airways from Seam Reap, Cambodia, down to Bangkok, and after a layover we flew to the island of Koh Samui…
Have you ever felt impelled to revisit a place which was once very important in your life? While in Chiang Mai during the July trip to Southeast Asia with grandsons, we hired a driver to take us to Hang Dong and Baan Tawai Village, where we spent over 20 years…
After lunch our driver drove us to Elephant Eco Valley an hour north of Chiang Mai to visit the elepants. Everyone was excited to see how they live in this unique protected environment. We climbed into the truck and headed up the bumpy dirt road. Elephant Eco Valley is a…