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Why Chiang Mai?

Well, we have enjoyed our past visits to Thailand.  Bangkok is a great city—big, busy, and very crowded.  Great place to  visit, but, perhaps not the best place to settle into for a few months.  Chiang Mai is an hour away by plane.  It’s a little smaller (pop. roughly 200,000), a little more navigable, and, a little cooler than Bangkok.  Chiang Mai is in Northern Thailand where one can find mountains, forests, rice fields and verdant valleys.  It’s an old city, founded in the 13th century and rich with monuments, museums, and temples (300+). And, the old part of the city is surrounded by a moat! Is that cool or what? It is also a university town which means younger people, bars, cheap eats, and lots of entertainment. 

A little fuzzy, but you get the idea.