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Chiang Mai’s Annual Flower Festival Parade
Chiang Mai’s Annual Flower Festival Parade… Welcome to another week of Travel Photo Thursday. Chiang Mai’s annual flower fest is history for this year. This weekend we will be celebrating Chinese New Year. Chiang Mai is home to many Chinese, and there will be lots of festivities to ring in the year of the…
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Chiang Mai’s Annual Flower Festival — Flowers, Flowers Everywhere
As I caught sight of the flower stalls cheerfully lining the street in front of Chiang Mai’s Buak Hat Park, I wondered why I had thought that maybe this years festival wouldn’t hold a lot of appeal to me. We all know the saying “familiarity builds contempt”, and after all, this will be my 5th…
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Travel Photo Thursday — January 24, 2013 — Wat Si Chum at Sukhothai’s Historical Park
Welcome to another week of Travel Photo Thursday. For the past couple of days I’ve been in New Sukhothai, a dusty little Thai town located about 12km from the Sukhothai Historical Park. This sprawling UNESCO site is made up of numerous temple compounds; many of them in ruins, and some restored. Sukhothai was the second Thai…
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Through the Sandbox Lens #49 — Sukhothai’s Wat Chang Lom — Offerings to the Elephants
Wat Chang Lom (meaning: surrounded by elephants) in the Sukhothai Historical Park (Sukhothai, Thailand). Most of the 32 elephants ringing chedi no longer have trunks, but a couple of them do. This offering was hanging from one of the remaining trunks. I thought it made for a pretty photo. If you missed…