Her longest trip and only one to a city was to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
There are Central stores in Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Pattaya and Phuket, besides Bangkok.
I'd be riding elephants in Chiang Mai, gourmandizing in Hanoi, and exploring Angkor Wat.
The government, abandoning Bangkok to gather in Chiang Mai, Mr Thaksin's home turf, insists it will not budge.
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Many of the products are handmade in and around Chiang Mai, including cotton scarves, leather sandals and wood carvings.
Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Michelle regularly travels to far and distant lands for her job and international volunteer initiatives.
Mrs Jones will make her appeal at a department of special investigations press conference in Chiang Mai on 9 August.
Wat Po, in Bangkok, offers excellent pummellings and Lila's in Chiang Mai offers treatments performed by released and retrained prisoners.
But these days, especially in cities like Bangkok and Chiang Mai, the sprinkling has become a soaking, with everyone a target.
And it wants to add a new infantry division in Chiang Mai plus a division in the northeast, both red-shirt strongholds.
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In 2000 ASEAN along with China, Japan and South Korea launched a multilateral arrangement of currency swaps, the Chiang Mai Initiative.
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It is important to land in Chiang Mai before the weekend starts to get the best shopping experience Thailand has to offer.
Not only did the city's glittering temples make Chiang Mai's look drab, but the very air was infused with a pal-pable spirituality.
Tanthawee originally left Chiang Mai to further her education in New Zealand, but a degree in media turned into one in culinary arts.
The largest concentrations of manufacturing locations are in the Bangkok area, but roughly 10% are close to Chiang Mai, the largest city in northern Thailand.
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After that, the beans are transported to Chiang Mai for roasting.
Chiang Mai lets down its hippie hair at this market with lots of ethnic chic accessories, undyed cotton T-shirts and "save the planet" canvas tote bags.
Chiang Mai, in the northern region, surrounded by mountains and filled with Buddhist temples, is second in size to Bangkok, considerably less expensive and more serene.
This luxury hotel on wheels--more of a destination unto itself than a means of transportation--shuttles in vintage style between Singapore and Chiang Mai, as well as points in between.
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And after working for several years at a nonprofit in Chiang Mai, Lee received a grant to help his village cultivate, process and sell the coffee in a sustainable manner.
Dice up the next few days in nearby Chiang Mai with a visit to The Elephant Hospital, Doi Suthep, the Chiang Mai City Art and Cultural Center, and a silk-weaving centre.
From Chiang Mai, visitors spend around four hours in a songtaew, a covered truck with two benches in the back, then two more hours in the back of a 4x4 driving up a primitive road.
One piece of advice: remember to bring an empty suitcase and have a suitable courier in mind when travelling to Chiang Mai because you could end up buying enough souvenirs to furnish an entire house.
The first go at co-operation, the Chiang Mai Initiative of 2000, was to expand and formalise a network of bilateral swap agreements between central banks, under which they promised to provide each other with liquidity.
One night, as I walked down a street in Chiang Mai, Thailand with a girlfriend to a bar we were meeting friends at, I became aware of the faint sound of footsteps behind me.
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Born and brought up in the northern city of Chiang Mai, he began his career in Thailand's notoriously corrupt police force, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and completing a Phd in Texas before resigning.
If you get hungry as you get lost shopping in Chiang Mai's streets, the temples along the way host food stalls selling flavoursome northern Thai cuisine and other stamina boosts for the small change in your pocket.
"They get disconnected from their communities and the environment and many eventually get completely detached from their own indigenous identity, " says Jannie Lasimbang, General Secretary of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) Foundation, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Seven cooks, including a pastry chef, under the management of kitchen maestro Jutamas Theantae, formerly of the venerable Mandarin Oriental in Chiang Mai, toil away to prepare exquisite French-Asian fusion dishes--foie gras and truffle miso soup, anyone?
Michael Flancman, who divides his time between his native Toronto and Chiang Mai, Thailand, first learned that elephant waste could be turned into paper in 2002, when he heard about a Thai villager who was doing just that.
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