Budapest, Hungary to Chiang Mai, Thailand from €486

🌍 About chiang mai

Chiang Mai is the soulful counterweight to Thailand's beaches, a moated old city studded with teak temples like Wat Phra Singh and Wat Chedi Luang. The mountaintop shrine of Doi Suthep watches over town, reached past waterfalls and coffee farms in the surrounding hills. This is the home of khao soi, the coconut curry noodle dish you should order again and again, best chased through the Sunday Walking Street market and the stalls around Warorot. Nimmanhaemin draws the cafe-and-design crowd, ethical sanctuaries let you meet rescued elephants on their terms, and when the Yi Peng festival fills the night sky with lanterns, the whole Lanna north feels enchanted. Cool, calm, and deeply northern.