Travel || Chiang Rai Thailand

How I wish I was back in Thailand right now. It's be so long since I posted a travel post, and there will be more coming very soon! This is what I would call the second part of the trip, where we began our travels up north.

We traveled from Bangkok up north to Chiang Rai. As much as I loved Bangkok, it was nice to get out of the city. It was slightly cooler in the north, but felt more traditional and you got more of a taste of the culture. The place we stayed was lovely, not too posh but really clean, the guy who ran it was also really nice and helpful offering us loads of advice. While in Chiang Rai we went for a cooking course, with Suwanne which was so much fun and I enjoyed learning to cook traditional Thai food. Although it was so spicy at times, something to look out for in Thailand! This is also where we met up with some friends, and drove on a little bit of a loop to visit an opium museum of all places, as well as a tea plantation, some traditional gardens and the Golden Triangle- which although was a landmark which I wanted to see wasn't all that impressive- I wasn't too sure what I was expecting with that one. Street food in Thailand is incredible, even though you don't know half the time what you are eating it tastes so good and in the whole two and a half week nobody got ill once from it all. There were some really cool bars around, and I would love to go back to Chiang Rai because we only spent a couple of nights there.

Have you ever traveled to Thailand? What's your favourite country you've ever been to?

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