Monthly Archives: January 2013

Recreation at The Mandarin Oriental Dhara Devi Chiangmai

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There is lots to do in the 60 acre resort!  We normally take it for granted and always go out of the resort or hotel – but really there is lots to do if you just stay in the resort

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Cute, they have a kalesa which you can use inside the place

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A Spa of course! 🙂

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Walking around some more and checking out the beautiful buildings and views

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Rice paddies around the resort – you can even join the rice planting activity which can be both for adults and kids

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This is a pool bar near the health center/gym

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Going to the gym

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Where there usually aren’t much people haha!!

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I am not sure but I think these bikes are the bikes you can use around the place

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Beautiful!  Going to the Crafts Village and the Lanna Kids CLub

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A nice kids place where they can hang out and do lots of fun activities

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They have arts and crafts activities for both kids and adults

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I did not make any but I was able to get souvenirs from this 

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SMEG Opens Showroom in Cebu

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Congratulations to our friend, Ton Concepcion on the launching of their new shorwoom in Cebu!!

Mondo Cucina Inc. launched the 60 square meter Smeg showroom in Cebu last year at Unit 1-I, Design Center of Cebu A.S. Fortuna corner P. Remedio Streets Banilad Mandaue City, Cebu

They partnered with ISCAHM Cebu – International School of Culinary Arts and Hotel Management w/ Chef Sean McSavaney who prepared the hor d’ oeuvres that nightsmeg-cebu_99.jpgsmeg-cebu_2.jpgsmeg-cebu_203.jpgsmeg-cebu_7.jpgsmeg-cebu_11.jpgsmeg-cebu_14.jpgsmeg-cebu_19.jpgsmeg-cebu_34.jpgsmeg-cebu_172.jpgsmeg-cebu_179.jpgsmeg_pr.jpgsmeg_pr-2.jpg

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Mandarin Oriental Dhara Devi Chiangmai

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As soon as Christmas was over, we flew to Chiang Mai 🙂

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We arrived already evening in the resort

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But took photos during the day of the place

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I thought we were back in India 🙂  

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Wow! I thought another palace!!  But apparently this place is relatively new that it is only 8 years old.  It’s not an old place, it was built from scratch

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Beautiful car of the son of the owner

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The lobby

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Nice chandliers too.  Thailand reminds me a lot of India

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Some parts of the resort –

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you can bike around the resort 🙂

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Resort Shopping Village of the hotel

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Shopping arcade with blue chandeliers

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Click below to go to their website

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Christmas Day Dinner 2012

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This is one reason why we never want to be away from the family for Christmas!  We are not as complete as we want it to be, but it’s better than nothing 🙂  We love celebrating every single celebration!  This is the last for Christmas with my Dad’s side of the family. So if we have plans to leave for out of town, we do it after all the celebrations 🙂  

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Living Room Mess on Christmas Day

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The day after Christmas has been the same for me ever since I can remember.  After a late night – we wake up late then open the gifts under our Christmas tree 🙂  Everyone just stays home

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A nice mess 🙂  We normally sort the gifts out ourselves, but this year i asked help from my household staff to sort it already

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When it is already noon time and time to eat lunch – I wake the kids up or else it will be hard to start the day with them- so they come down in their pajamas and we open gifts 🙂

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