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Disclosure: Some of the links in this article are affiliate links. If you book through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend places we genuinely love. The first time I watched a krathong drift away on the river outside my house in Chiang Mai, I understood
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If you are planning a trip to Chiang Mai, a Thai cooking class will almost certainly end up on your list. And it should. There is no better way to understand a country than through its food, and Chiang Mai has become the cooking-class capital of Thailand. But here is the problem: there are dozens
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