The travel guide
Practical playbooks for planning Northern Thailand: what to book, what to skip, when to come, and how our same-day operator confirmation works differently from the big marketplaces.
Featured · safety
What Chiang Mai-specific travel insurance should cover — scooter accidents (the big one), motorbike licence requirements, elephant-camp interaction coverage, and air-quality flight changes.
15 May 2026 · 12 min read
safety · 21 Apr 2026
What we actually use for indoor air during burning season — Xiaomi 4 Pro vs Coway AP-1512HH, annual filter cost, and the kitchen-extractor trick that doubles capacity.
safety · 06 Mar 2026
Chiang Mai for solo female travellers — what the city is actually like, neighborhoods to base in, the women-led tours and cafes, and the specific scams that target solo women.
safety · 02 Mar 2026
Chiang Mai safety in 2026 — burning season, scooter accidents, scams, areas to avoid at night, and the worries from r/Thailand that don't match what we see daily.
safety · 31 Dec 2025
Real Chiang Mai scams — tuk-tuk gem detours, fake monk donations, jet-ski deposit games — and the ones expat forums panic about that don't actually happen in 2026.