Comments on: Chiang Mai: 21 Things To Do In Thailand’s Northern City

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By: Tobi

Tobi — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:31:35 +0000

Thank you very much for all your tips!
I will visit Chiang Mai in February and already noted down a bunch of your ideas. 🙂
My favorites are three house and the swimming restaurant.

By: Namra

Namra — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:35:32 +0000

Wow, so cool! I’m actually considering travelling to Chiang Mai in 2019, so this was perfect! Going to spend at least two days with elephants, but the tip I’m hoping I for sure take with me If I go is the massage from the female prisoners as part of their rehabilitation program – that is just so awesome!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:48:32 +0000

Hey Marek! These are some exceptional things to do when in Chiang Mai, especially for first timers there! A spa and swim with the elephants were by far my favourite things I did when in Chiang Mai. 🙂

By: Roxanna

Roxanna — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 06:39:12 +0000

As a reasonably experienced traveler, but one who has never been in Thailand, or any part of Asia for that matter, I found myself wanting to do everyone of these things as I read. In fact, it made me think, maybe I should look for some flights.. If they happen to be touristy, okay, so are most of the places that people visit. They are popular for a reason, and the presence of other tourists actually helps a new visitor become comfortable in a location. After a few days, as you know, an experienced traveler then goes off on their own, or finds a local guide, and finds some of their own awesome things to see and do. Bookmarking, because I really did just add Chang Mai to my list.

By: Marek

Marek — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:42:44 +0000

In reply to Sarah.

Hey Sarah. I get ya, but I think you took the title a bit differently from intended! They’re meant to be unusual (several anyway) for those coming to Chiang Mai – as I’m pretty sure many people might not have experienced something similar elsewhere. What might be ‘been there, done that’ to an experienced traveler is still fresh and magical to someone arriving for the first time.

Loads of people constantly arrive to this blog looking for travel tips about Thailand, so I feel it’s useful to provide guides to the popular spots. This might hit some familiar beats if you’ve already been, but having these articles also makes it possible to cover more obscure or off the beaten track stuff elsewhere (this is always fun to do, but actually gets read by very few people… one often has to subsidize the other!).

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 23:16:14 +0000

I just don’t get the whole travel blogging industry these days. Originally people touted travel blogs as the perfect alternative to guide books because they’re up to date and can give a more personal account of a place and the activities there. These are supposed to be ‘unusual’ things to do in Chiang Mai, which is bloody ridiculous. Which list of ‘Things to do in Chaing Mai’ doesn’t contain Doi Suthep, a cooking class, seeing some elephants, visiting some markets? Pretty much everything on here is super generic and if you arrive in Chiang Mai and chat to anyone who’s been in town for more than half an hour they’ll tell you pretty much this exact list. ‘Ex-con’ sounds cool and edgy and what not but it’s still one of the most popular things in town. Do people who write travel blog posts just assume that no one who reads it will have ever been to the city/country or have never read anything else on it and that they’ll be thought of as super original? I don’t get it.

Sorry, total rant but it kinda grinds my gears because so many blogs are becoming redundant with exactly the same cookie-cutter posts about fantastically popular destinations just to get page traffic, not because it’s good writing or new information or something useful that people can’t find in 2000 other sites out there. What a waste.