lordblackader

Christmas Fair. I tried to go on the weekend but gave up due to the insane traffic. Apparently they were offering a chance to win iPhones as well, driving even more Thais to visit.

Sponsored by Grab, but it's open to other ride-hailing apps. If you read the post from CNX where the picture came from, it specifically says, in Thai, that it's for all ride-hailing apps. As for the rest of it, you're talking about the past. Ride-hailing apps became legal in 2021 and the battles between Grab drivers and rod daeng and taxis in Chiang Mai pre-date COVID.

Get away from the city and the main highways and there are various places to ride - for example, back areas of San Sai and Doi Saket and up towards Mae Kuang Dam are relatively safe for riding.

See the picture below - that's the legal pickup point for ride hailing apps launched at CNX last month - more pictures per the link. It's neither illegal nor discouraged.

It was a guy making rockets - it was not a "fireworks factory." https://www.facebook.com/ChiangmaiPR/posts/pfbid02i1jxwv5pAL5cerp4XBQAStrUpAJE3RWDtFsKAyRh7UFHa9DYugeVq12MsbTimo2Bl

Myanmar border is closed to foreigners. Your options are Chiang Khong or Chiang Saen, although Chiang Knong is the more popular of the two - least that's where the visa run companies travel to from Chiang Mai.

Now just wait until they find out they can't sell alcohol until 4 a.m. and see what they have to say.

They don't enforce the current laws, such as burning bans and it being illegal to start fires in national parks, protected forests and wildlife reserves. Unless they're actually going to try to enforce the new act, the new Clean Air Act is less useful than toilet paper.

Closed with no sign of it reopening to foreigners.

This is the correct answer. Keep it on the down low and don't go telling people that you're working and they'll never know.

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Baan and Beyond is now known as BnBHome and they're located next to Thai Watsadu on the 121 in San Sai. https://maps.app.goo.gl/nuCwQgyxkMUF7PdP9

Isn't any whales in Chiang Mai - well, not marine ones anyway.

Airport taxi to Doi Saket should be a fixed price of around 400/450 baht. Cheaper alternative would be InDrive.

Airport Taxis from CNX don't use the meter, they run on fixed prices.

Nana bakery as others have said - multiple locations but long term, have you considered making it yourself? Bread makers are not expensive and easy to use - guaranteed you won't have issues if you bake it yourself.

Now go back in time to 2019 and see what it was like. It hasn't fully recovered yet from COVID. It used to be a lot worse. You're right though - the car park has helped.

The harder challenge would be traveling further than 1km in Chiang Mai and not finding a wet market - they're everywhere, including in the outer metro area.

No problems at the Mae Sai border - it has been closed since July.

It's not the governor of Chiang Mai - its Pichai Lertpongadisorn, President of Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organization and Chairman of Chiang Mai United FC.

There is bad journalism and then there is this - that's not the Governor of Chiang Mai, that's the head of of the Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organization and it actually says that in the Thairath article that is linked in the story.

Ordinary prisoners get helicopter rides to hospital - uh huh.

Aside from the novelty of the Koi, there's nothing exciting about the place or the food. Much better places for a feed.

The 45 days was a temporary measure to boost tourism. On the cards for the future, though, are 90 visa exempt entries - when is unknown but it's a policy proposal from the new PM. Could be early next year or it may never happen.

Clickbait rubbish - two cases of monkeypox, both imported. The dengue part is serious, though.