We have been in Chaing Mai for a week, we didn't intend on staying so long but had a couple of set backs including a unscheduled Beer Chang hangover (it's 6.4%!) and a bout of "Bangkok Belly" each.....and we are not even there yet! That said, we managed to have some fun, we did a Thai cooking course and made Tom Yam soup (nearly burnt my face off) and some delicious Thai Green curry. Had a lot of laughs and I must stress what we ate was not the cause of our upset tummies! The next day we did a 2 hour trek into the beautiful forest to see a waterfall, quite stunning and a bit of an effort to get to in my opinion, and in the afternoon we went white-water-rafting down the river....totally hilarious and quite thrilling, although we didn't overturn which was a MIRACLE, we managed to swallow copious amounts of water...in these parts it should be called brown-water-rafting as it is very muddy! Stayed in a nice cheap hotel with a very hard bed, but we did have a fabulous Thai massage to crack all thoses achy joints, 4 quid each!! We are saving the budget to splash out in Bangkok on a nice place to stay, preferably with a soft bed.