We take the train for 2 hours from Colombo to Hikkaduwa on the southern coast. This time, we actually get seats! (yeah!). Travel by train remains the favorite mode of transport, so it is consistently full. This is to be…
What Wat today? Temple hopping in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Chiang Mai was the center of the Lanna Empire eons ago. Naturally isolated from the distant Capital of Bangkok, due to a forbidding mountainous terrain all around, Chiang Mai has a provincial feel. More laid back, less hurried and easily…