Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand

Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand is a very cool place. After a somewhat long and delayed 17 hour train ride from Bangkok we eventually arrived in this cultural hub of Thailand. During our stay we did a fair bit of temple spotting, loads of shopping at the various night markets and enjoyed an amazing Thai cookery class on an organic farm cooking up a storm making my favourite Thai dishes, amongst them Pad Thai and Cashew nut chicken finsished with delicious sticky rice and mango. (P.S the guy making the spring rolls is my gorgeous fiance, Sven who is a great cook - bonus!) The other 'cultural' Thai tradition we had to take a look at was Muay Thai boxing which was pretty interesting, and of course there were plenty of ladyboy waitresses serving up Chang beer!