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This amazing house is the perfect destination for the lovers of history , it ’ s not just the building that is seeping with it , it ’ s the whole area . With so much to explore on your honeymoon , each day will bring a new adventure .
Seven hundred kilometres northwest of Bangkok and just over 300 metres above sea level , Chiang Mai sits along the Mae Ping River , a tributary of the Chao Praya River that flows through Bangkok .
Chiang Mai , meaning “ new city ” in Thai , was founded by King Mangrai in 1296 , succeeding Chiang Rai as the capital of the Lanna Kingdom , or literally “ Kingdom of a Million Fields .”
Lanna was a prosperous trading centre on the route from Yunnan in the south of China to the Burmese coast and the Gulf of Martaban . The Kingdom was also renowned for its scholars and craftsmen . A city wall was built to protect it from invading Burmese who nonetheless managed to occupy the royal capital