In Dec 1998, I had a trip to Chieng Rai & Chieng Mai - Thailand, with some other friends.

with a group of friends I went to visit the palace in Chieng Rai, beautiful and very traditional structural built.  And in Dec the weather is slightly cold but not very cold as in Europe...so we could still wear thin clothes...we stayed in Chieng Rai juz for 2 days and the next day we went to Chieng Mai.

In Chieng Mai we went to watch the elephant show, and we had a elephant ride around the park...you can see behind me those elephants were taking a bathe...they´re quite friendly elephants I must say compared to the ones we saw in the African jungle.  On the way back, we visited the umbrella factory, silk factory and Gem s factory as well.

and then in the evening we went out for dinner at a very nice restaurant which presenting some culture shows...so that´s how we ended our day.

and then on the last day we went to the National Park by van and managed to get ourselves to th e highest spot in Thailand, it´s quite cold up there...along the way we made a few stop-over to visit some famous temples in Chieng Mai.

so that´s all about Chieng Rai & Chieng Mai that I could remember...