I readily admit that I have a soft spot for old cemeteries and funerary heritage. After all, there are few places where the past is as tangible as in a historic graveyard. This certainly applies to the Protestant cemetery in Bangkok.

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The Chiang Mai Foreign Cemetery

By Lung Jan
Posted in Background, History
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March 10 2022

In a previous post I briefly considered the historic Protestant cemetery in Bangkok. Today I would like to take you to an equally intriguing necropolis in the north, in the heart of Chiang Mai. This cemetery is located on the old road from Chiang Mai to Lamphun next to the Gymkhana Club.

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In a previous article I briefly discussed the Foreign Cemetery in Chiang Mai. In November 2018, on the occasion of the worldwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, this cemetery commemorated the British expatriates from Chiang Mai who had fought in one way or another in the British armed forces during the Great War.

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Thailand's national symbol receives a dignified farewell in Surin. Hundreds of elephants are buried in a special cemetery.

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After four months in Thailand with my wife and after many wanderings, we also ended up in Kanchanaburi last week and of course visited everything that had to do with the Burma railway.

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I have a question about a strange cemetery on the route from Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son. This is located just before Tak directly along the route. No one can give me an answer so far.

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