Around The World Gaby and Gu 2006-2007

This specific cooking school was recommended to us before starting our trip for being different than the usual cooking schools in downtown Chiang-Mai. This one is outside of Chiang-Mai in a farm where all the ingredients for cooking are grown! Well, let's say it, we really had a blast cooking our own meal under the supervision of our very dynamic teacher. An experience not to be missed if you're visiting the area !!

Apart from the Royal Flora festival, there are many activities organized to celebrate and honour King Bhumibol for his 60th Birthday. One of them was to lit a candle and send it in a paper bag to the sky. Each of those candles represented a wish so that by the end of the evening the sky seemed to be full of stars. And again, Happy Birthday to the King !

We had heard about it but we would never have thought that we'd like Chiang Mai as much ! We decided to spend our Sunday like average Thai people by going to the Ratchaphruek Royal Flora festival, which honours the king's sixtieth anniversary. We were quite impressed to see very little tourists, if almost none. It was really great to see all those family spending their sunday in this beautiful flower exhibition. On our second day, we decided to rent a moped and wander around Chiang-Mai...there's only one thing to say : We really had so much fun doing this !! It really was a cool experience even with the pretty heavy traffic we encountered in certain parts of the city.Visiting Chiang-Mai's zoo and the Doi-Suthep temple with our moped are the highlights of day !!