#Chiang rai

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Mae Suai on 35mm

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📍Chiang Rai, Thailand 🇹🇭

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Сказочное кафе Lalitta Café в городке Чианграй, Тайланд.The fabulous Lalitta Café in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

Это не декорации к сказке или фильму, не воплощение райских кущ, а одно из самых живописных кафе в мире. Если будете в Тайланде обязательно заезжайте в городок Чианграй и посетите место под название Lalitta Café, там вы сможете попить кофе, попробовать местной кухни и очень вкусных, привлекательных на вид десертов .Чтобы добраться до кафе, вы пройдете через тропический лес с мостами, ручьями и туманом. Увидите ревущий водопад и эстетичные национальные скульптуры. Во время посещения кафе вы сможете сделать много снимков себя и своих друзей на фоне этого тропического цветущего сада.

This is not the scenery for a fairy tale or film, not the embodiment of heaven, but one of the most picturesque cafes in the world. If you are in Thailand, be sure to stop by the town of Chiang Rai and visit a place called Lalitta Café, where you can drink coffee, try local cuisine and delicious, attractive-looking desserts. To get to the cafe, you will pass through a tropical forest with bridges, streams and fog. You will see a roaring waterfall and aesthetic national sculptures. During your visit to the cafe, you will be able to take many pictures of yourself and your friends against the backdrop of this tropical flower garden.

Источник://t.me/bestplacesontheplanet,//m.vk.com/wall-58406182_26614,://www.idntimes.com/travel/destination/nur-rochim/lalitta-cafe-bersuasana-kayangan-c1c2?page=all, ://www.tripadvisor.ru/Restaurant_Review-g297920-d25064767-Reviews-Lalitta_Cafe-Chiang_Rai_Chiang_Rai_Province.html.

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Blue Temple is Chiang Rai, Thailand

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By Blushblushtomato

Chiang Rai, Thailand

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Wat Rong Khun - White Temple, Pa O Don Chai, Mueang Chiang Rai District, Chiang Rai, Thailand

CJ

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Chiang Rai (เชียงราย), THAILAND.

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Grandes inundações em Mae Sai, província de Chiang Rai, Tailândia 24.05.2025

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Dueling Temples in Chiang Rai

Rivalry serves as a profound motivator, compelling individuals to elevate their performance. It fuels our ambition and stimulates our creative capacities. Additionally, it sharpens our concentration and tests our boundaries. Consider these artistic rivalries...

Rivalry serves as a profound motivator, compelling individuals to elevate their performance. It fuels our ambition and stimulates our creative capacities. Additionally, it sharpens our concentration and tests our boundaries. At its most constructive, rivalry fosters a form of competition that can lead to significant achievements. For example, had it not been for Gutzom Borglum’s monumental…

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⚜️💙devotion in every detail⚜️💙

-Wat Rong Suea Ten/ Blue Temple

Chiang Rai, Thailand

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Wat Rong Suea Ten (The Blue Temple) - Thailand

The Blue Temple, also known as the Temple of the Dancing Tiger, is another famous temple located in Chiang Rai and is famous for its brilliant sapphire color. Symbolically, the color blue represents Buddha’s wisdom and purity. The temple is a fusion of traditional Thai architecture and modernism, and it preaches traditional Buddhist values. 

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Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple)- Chiang Rai, Thailand.

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Chiang Rai

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CRYPTID-TOBER

October 21st, 2023

THE GHOSTLY SCARECROW OF CHIANG RAI

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The floaty thing doesn't really make much sense.

It's not an air balloon, they say, but I don't really believe it's an alien.

Not even now.

I watch it floating over the corn field, big eyes looking directly at me.

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After many failed Inktobers, I decided to stop trying to follow prompt lists that always end up boring me, so I'm challenging myself to draw a cryptid per day for all the month of October!

No lists, no prompts, just me drawing random creatures I like!

How fun is that?

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[southeastasiadiary]

Day Twenty-Four, Part One: A Day in Chiang Rai

Today was devoted to a full-day trip from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai. Now, if those names seem confusing, it’s actually quite simple. Chiang simply means city. Rai or Mangrai was the first king of Lana, the predecessor to Siam/Thailand. And mai simply means big, as in the Wat Mai in Luang Prabang. So, Chiang Mai = The Big City, and Chiang Rai = Rai’s city.

Our first stop, about an hour outside of Chiang Mai, was a hot spring.

When we returned to the city late in the day, the geiser was even more active. Apparently, that tends to occur in the afternoon.

The water of the hot spring is so Hotel that people actually boil eggs in it: seven minutes for chicken eggs; two minutes for quail eggs.

A busload of Chinese tourists was also enjoying the hot springs by soaking their feet in the water.

I decided that I’d pass on that treat.

About two hours later, we reached Wat Rong Khun, also known as the White Temple. Now, I’d been really looking forward to this temple since yesterday, when we were walking down the steps from the mountain temple. I overheard one person tell another that he absolutely HAD to go to the White Temple because it was the single best temple anywhere, even more impressive than the mountain temple.

Well, everyone has their own taste, I suppose, but the White Temple just wasn’t my cup of tea. Nor was it what I thought it would be. First, despite incorporating the ruins of an ancient temple, the buildings I saw were no earlier than the twenty-first century. Seriously. They’re the work of an artist by the name of Chalermchai Kositpipat who comes across as having the personality of Elon Musk and the taste of Donald Trump. Nothing that can be done to make the temple gaudy, tacky, and “over the top” has been overlooked.

That’s the second point about why I was disappointed. The outside of the temple is made of concrete painted with bright white paint and inlaid with bits of mirror to make it glitter like something Elvis Presley might have worn.

Third, the comparison to Elvis Presley is not an exaggeration. The symbolism at the temple is, at times, downright weird. In addition to traditional Hindu gods, the figures that are depicted in the main temple as saving mankind include Superman, Batman, Spider Man, and … um … Michael Jackson.

Note that the photo above had to be dowloaded off of the Internet. A sign said that we couldn't take photos inside this section of the temple, and as a rule-follower …

The decor of the White Temple was so over-the-top that I refrained from calling this place “Wat Disney" … aloud, at least, but I thought it often enough.

The temple complex is nominally Buddhist, but with strong Hindu influence. It’s supposed to be a microcosm of the universe. A moat surrounding the buildings represents the ocean. The lowest zone depicts people suffering in hell.

The main temple depicts the battle of good (Michael Jackson et al.) against evil (Osama bin Laden and other terrorists). The paradise section cannot be entered, and the nirvana section is not yet complete.

Almost as a relief afterward, we stopped at the Opium Museum, which traces the rise, development, and eventual eradication of the opium trade in the area. This was actually my favorite part of the day. On display is an assortment of “pillows” that opium users would recline on while smoking the drug,

and a large array of opium pipes.

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I’ve mentioned my “finding 4-leaf clovers” superpower before, right? Well it made it real easy to find the single foot:

Wait, nope, that…that’s an eyeball in a palm. That’s not where an eyeball goes. Oh, and a crucifixion wound? That’s cool, that’s cool. Anyway, here’s the foot:

Oops, my bad. This is too-long arms holding aloft a bowlful of something that’s certainly unspeakable with my human tongue. Sorry - the foot’s right here:

Damnit, y’all, I keep fucking this up. This isn’t the single foot! This is Jack. He’s a KISS fan. He’s friends with an Abominable Horned One - you can’t see that guy’s face, but his horns are peeking up to the left of ol’ Jack, there. For real, now, though, here’s the foot:

Found it. ^_^

The pit of hell at Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, Thailand.