When trekking in the jungle, we recommend wearing good hiking or sports shoes and long pants. This will protect you against stinging and poisonous plants (up to 2 % of plants in rainforests) as well as insects of all kinds, beetles and certain arthropods.

Seventy languages are spoken in Thailand today, and 93 % of them belong to the Tai-Kadai language family (1). Here's an overview of the kingdom's main languages.

It's no secret that Chiang Mai and its immediate suburbs are one of the areas with the most interesting sights in Thailand. One of the questions that often comes up is how to get around the city and reach all these interesting places (temples, museums, restaurants, cafés, etc.).

Buddhism has been practiced in Thailand since the 3rd century BC. Indeed, ancient Ceylonese chronicles record that the Indian emperor Ashoka (269-237 BC) sent Thera ("elder monks") to nine lands to spread the word of the Buddha.

We're sometimes surprised to read that Chiang Mai is only worth a two-day visit, even though its region is by far the one with the most natural, ethnic and historical sites in the whole of Thailand.

PRESENTATION :
The Padong are a people originally from Burma (30,000 live in Kayah State, named Karenni State before 1947). Around 500 Padong fled to Thailand in 1988, driven out by fighting in Myanmar between the military junta and ethnic minorities in the east.