We had a short domestic flight from Bangkok to the north of Thailand to our next destination – Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai is a completely different world from Bangkok, so different that it was almost like being in another country. This is partially true, for Chiang Mai was the capital of a once prosperous self-ruling kingdom in the north, the Kingdom of Lanna, which was the powerbase of the northern territory and completely independent from the central Thai kingdoms. Due to its p