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Food market, Mae Sai
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Chiang Saen
POP 11,000
The dictionary definition of a sleepy river town, Chiang Saen was the site of a Thai
kingdom thought to date back to as early as the 7th century. Scattered throughout
the modern town are the ruins of the former empire - surviving architecture includes
several
chedi,
Buddha images,
wí·hăhn
pillars and earthen city ramparts. Chiang
Saen later became loosely affiliated with various northern Thai kingdoms, as well as
18th-century Myanmar (Burma), and never became a Siamese possession until the
1880s.
