Do You Know Your Chiang Mai History?

[T_Dog]

Who conceived the idea for the road to Doi Suthep?

Why do buses and song taews beep when they pass the temple just above the zoo?

Who is one of the most revered monks of Northern Thailand?

I ran across this website which answers these questions.... If you live here, you really should know.

http://www.chiangmai-chiangrai.com/buddhis...n-thailand.html

[Greenside]

Also worth visiting the National Museum on the Superhighway just adjacent to the start of the underpass under the Mae Rim junction as you are travelling away from Huay Kaew Road. Easy to miss so take it slowly. A bit of natural history with fossils and the like and a whole lot about the founding of Chiang Mai and the history of Lanna.

[newbie001]

What kind of car did the monk, who designed the road to suthep, ride in to the top?

Where is the temple that he was from? NOt in Chiang Mai.

[Blinky Bill]

What was the name of the historic bar that was on the lane behind the Amora Hotel long before the hotel was built?

What was the name of the bar where the legendary Stuart would eventually drink himself to death?

What was the name of a bar owned by 2 sisters on Chaiyaphum Road? Eventually it was moved and taken over by an Ozzie who got into a little trouble. Who was he and what were his troubles?

What was the name of the original bar where the Gatehouse Inn (?) is now situated?

[Ulysses G.]

This is more like it!

In which famous house of ill repute did a well known Scottish fellow have a wake after drinking himself to death?

What was the name of the redneck Canadian who sold the Linda bar to 5 people and then left town?

Which farang used to keep the Blue Moon bar clean for one free beer a day and permission to sleep on the pavement?

[Blinky Bill]

This is more like it!

In which famous house of ill repute did a well known Scottish fellow have a wake after drinking himself to death?

The Housewives Association.

What was the name of the redneck Canadian who sold the Linda bar to 5 people and then left town?

Um, Um,

Which farang used to keep the Blue Moon bar clean for one free beer a day and permission to sleep on the pavement?

Best not mention his name as he is still alive and in town. But he is one of CM's characters of the 1990's and now sports a luxuriant white beard.

[Ulysses G.]

*raig was the Canadian (who also lost a lot of weight on the white powder diet about the same time). He can't come back, so he is not going to sue anyone.

Edited August 9, 2009 by Ulysses G.

[Mestizo]

This sort of Chiang Mai trivia, would REALLY make for an interesting book....

-Mestizo