Tag: trains
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Accidental Tourism
Overnight train took so much longer than we thought! What we thought was a twelve hour train ride actually was fourteen hours – almost as long as it took us to get to Beijing from L.A. We didn’t arrive in Chiang Mai until lunch time. At the train station we were offered a free ride…
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We Get ThisClose to Royalty (both of the Thai & Transportation Variety)
On our own again this morning, after a familial farewell breakfast. We headed to the Grand Palace, where people were shouting “hurry, hurry, gates close in ten minutes!” Um at eleven am? But still, we hurried… to wait in line. There were a ton of people milling around. The guy behind me was apparently so…
