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Buddhist Monk with stray dogs in front of temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been hanging out in the northern city of Chiang Mai over the past few days. It’s the second-largest city in Thailand, but it still has a very small-town feel. Chiang Mai seems best known for its many Buddhist temples and the monks running around. It’s also considered a good base for exploring the northern reaches of Thailand, near the Myanmar (Burma) and Laos borders.<\/p>\n

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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thai Buddhist Shrine in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elephants in Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist Monks relaxing in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thai Buddhist Shrine in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elephants in Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow I’m setting off on a three-day jungle adventure with a half dozen other people from my guesthouse. It will include a bit of hiking, a bit of swimming, some bamboo rafting, and, of course, elephant riding (as one does in Thailand). We’ll be sleeping in traditional huts in hill tribe villages (with those people with the elongated necks from wearing too many necklaces) up in the mountains.<\/p>\n

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Buddhist Monks reading newspapers in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thai Buddhist Shrine in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elephants in Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thai Buddhist Shrine in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elephants in Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elephants in Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elephants in Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buddhist temple design in Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hanging out in the northern city of Chiang Mai over the past few days. It’s the second-largest city in Thailand, but it still has a very small-town feel. Chiang Mai seems best known for its many Buddhist temples and the monks running around. It’s also considered a good base for exploring the northern… Continue reading Meanwhile, back in the jungle…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiang-mai-province","category-thailand","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}