While my mom was visiting, we decided to take a cooking class. We went with the Red Chili Cooking School which had nothing but 5 star ratings on TripAdvisor. The instructor Aon was awesome and deserves every 5 star rating. He has a different set menu for each day of…
One of the things I wanted to take the kids to was a silk factory. Funny enough, the materials I’m using to homeschool actually talked about silk in Asia and how silk is made. So I was able to tie a trip to Thai Silk Village into an educational opportunity…
One fun little diversion for us was a visit to the Siam Insect Zoo. It’s about 30 minutes out of town, near Mae Rim, Tiger Kingdom and a bunch of other attractions. There’s a decent butterfly garden, a section where you see lots of insect specimens pinned, mounted, and labeled,…
The village of Bo Sang (aka the umbrella village) sits about 20 minutes outside of Chiang Mai, so we took the kids there for a visit one afternoon. Right past an archway going into Bo Sang is a factory + showroom which demonstrates the entire process of making umbrellas by…