By Citylife | Thu 12 Mar 2020
![Sketch of an old teak wood house in Sanpatond Northern Thailand](https://images.chiangmaicitylife.com/clg/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Old-Thai-Houses-at-Sanpatong-5.jpg?auto=format&crop=entropy&fit=crop&fm=jpg&h=183&q=45&w=348&s=969872a7c230e1f342a3312806563144)
Roongroj Piamyossak, an artist, activist and retired village head has spent the past two years chronicling the teak old houses of Sanpatong District.
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![Thaw Chapel at the Leper Asylum (now the Santitham Church at the McKean Senior Center)](https://images.chiangmaicitylife.com/clg/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/82148024_10156663449846875_8398539712440041472_o.jpg?auto=format&crop=entropy&fit=crop&fm=jpg&h=183&q=45&w=348&s=a60f184ff633a05d3344ec26f0cf94c9)
It’s easy to scoff at all the nonsense found on Facebook, but then you would miss out on the absolute gem that is Chiang Mai Memories.
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Chiang Mai has developed into an epicentre of wellness and spirituality luring travellers and residents from around the world. Inundated with vegan and vegetarian
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In the 1960s Thea Hanson's grandparents were pioneering medical missionaries training hospital teams in Chiang Mai. Fifty years later she retraced their steps.
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What's in a name? Pim Kemasingki provides a brief history of the many derivations of the name of Chiang Mai city.
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