Sawasdee Khrap Sunday - and the cyclone coming from Burma is going through Chiang Mai. Lots of rain - but not continuous, cooling and refreshing. With each clearing, the beautiful towering white clouds and deep blue sky really set Chiang Mai alive. We're also getting ready to celebrate: " The Kingdom of Thailand celebrates Wan Chatramongkhol (Coronation Day) on Friday, May 5 which marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great." Check out the full story from the Chiang Mai Mail. The Kad Suan Kaew Shopping center is teaming with people - they have seminars, play areas for the kids, special booths for clothing sale items - The Hotel, we stay at, is booked. It's amazing - supposed to be the 'slow' season and I'd swear there are more people here than last Nov-Dec at the height of the tourist season. The tourist from China are increasing every day - bus load after bus load get here - Looks like Chiang Mai is fast becoming a major Chinese playground too. We received several emails with suggestions on how to improve the web-site. Excellent ideas we want to try. We are working on them now and should be making some great changes to the layout and theme. Thanks everyone for your input and help. I'll get back to you with some new pictures soon

Hi  Sawasdee Khrap

Just playing around with Photoshop and made a attempt at a photo-merge.  This is a view from our apt – facing Northwest, looking at Doi Suthep Temple – made from a spread of 4 photos to capture the whole scene.  I am sorry that the Temple is hidden in the clouds, but the rest of the scene looked so pretty this morning I had to shoot it.  I hope you enjoy and the enlargement shows how beautiful it is here.   Temp is about 76F, and what a lovely day.  I plan on going to get a massage this afternoon and then come back to work on the other pictures and videos we have made in the past few months. 

I will be posting here regularly, I hope, at least I’ll try.   All my post will be kept in the “Frank’s Blog” Category.   Looking forward to your comments and suggestions.   Please give me some ideas about what you would like to see or visit.  I will really try to show you “Unseen” Thailand in my travels - cultural and historical sites that the normal tours do not visit, articles on village life and customs, exciting and beautiful places around Thailand that you could plan your next vacation to see.

We are really looking forward to having the Storefront Shopping Cart working too – having a terrible time getting one that will integrate into this site and offer the options needed to properly present our

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Hi This is our new format – Please check it out and leave a comment or suggestion. Most of the pages have been completed and I hope you like them. We have not opened the site up to full traffic yet. We plan to publish to the search engines as soon as the “Store” portion is fully functional. The store isn’t open yet because we had to change software – the cart we were using, or trying to use, wouldn’t handle our products correctly, so we are setting up a new one. Also searching for a special product was a real problem – seemed to take forever and was not a simple point and click. Hopeful the new cart will eliminate these problems. Frank is getting ready to start posting his weekly travel logs here and has started to shut down his other blog — you can now find him here at: Category – Frank’s Blog ——— see the Categories and Archive sections. I will also begin posting more about Thailand, it’s culture, holidays, food and “Unseen” treasures. I hope you will like these and we need the comments to help the site grow *** please leave a comment and your suggestions *** of Thailand places or things you would like to know more about. Thanks

It’s New Year ! Thai style. Songkran Here are some pictures from the festival outside our office here in Chiang Mai. It’s 107 F. but you really don’t mind the sweltering heat when your getting drenche...

Welcome to AsianCoOp.com. This is our first post. So lets start blogging!

Sawasdee Pee Mai --- HAPPY NEW YEAR from Chiang Mai.

It's Thai New Year here and everyone is soaking wet -- The Blog is up and running but the Store is still under construction. We are in the process of adding products and designing the Theme. I just broke the Gallery, so it should be back on about the end of this month -- Sorry

Thank You for waiting, I know you won't be dissapointed.

Oh Ya -- We will also have each page in Thai.

Tasanai