Chiang Mai (CM) is Thailand's northern capital and the old city is surrounded by a man made square moat 1km by 1km. We walked around the entire perimeter and truth be told we weren't that impressed. We had seen seedy older western men with their very young Thai women in Bangkok but here they seem to be really coming out in droves. We wondered, other than the money, if their was any attraction on the part of the women?
After a day of relaxing with luxurious leg massages after the hill tribe trek, we donned the aprons for a day of Thai cookery lessons. Our Chef, Perm, first took us to the local market where he introduced us to all the various fruit, veg, rice and noodles we would be using. We each selected from a list of dishes those that we would like to learn how to prepare. Once the ingredients had been purchased we all piled into the back of his van and away we went to his suburban hideaway/kitchen. We spent the day preparing soups and curries, mango & sticky rice, spring rolls and Pad Thai and each dish was more delicious than the one before. We ate everything we prepared, we really wished we hadn't had breakfast at our hotel! By the time we left we were all completely stuffed, but in a good way. 
Our time in Thailand almost at an end, we headed back to Chiang Mai from Chiang Rai and collected Claire's custom made clothes from the two tailors who were completely drunk at the time, take in a night at the kick boxing stadium, visit the Panda's at the zoo before jumping on a plane for Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Thai Boxing
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