<p class="MsoNormal">Carefree boys leap from Chiang Mai's old city walls into a cooling moat. The city's walled old center is woven with quiet, narrow lanes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Read more in “<a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/chiang-mai-traveler/">Last Goodbye in Chiang Mai</a>” from the July/August 2011 issue of <i>National Geographic Traveler.</i></p>

Chiang Mai Summer

Carefree boys leap from Chiang Mai's old city walls into a cooling moat. The city's walled old center is woven with quiet, narrow lanes.

Read more in “Last Goodbye in Chiang Mai” from the July/August 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

Photograph by Palani Mohan

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chiang Mai Photo Gallery from the July/August 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

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