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When you come to Chiang Mai you will hear plenty about the Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden or the Rajapreuk Royal Flora Garden: what you may not have discovered, however, is the hidden gem called the Tweechol Botanical Garden. Opened in 2005, the garden was built as a showcase for a horticulturist enthusiast couple to showcase their work and passion. It is located out of town, on the Doi Saket-Chiang Mai highway, which places it as a considerable distance from the town center. So while you may not want to stay at the resort attached to this garden, you might want to consider taking a trip there to look at the garden itself.
Divided into various sections, the center of this garden revolves around four domes: orchids cheap coach purses , wild orchids, anthurium, bromeliads, cacti, and succulents. Of particular note is Dome 2, which features ferns, palms cheap coach purses outlet , and various other plants which combine with the artificial waterfall gives you the ambience of adventuring through a tropical rainforest. Dome 3 is also another worth visiting, as it brings you some of the most exotic flowers and plants rarely seen outside documentaries. All domes are contained in artificial ecosystems, with temperatures and humidity regulated to best provide the flora with an optimum environment in which they can flourish with minimum interference. In total, more than 300 different species of flora are on display in this section. The palm garden contains more than a hundred varieties.
The topiary features bushes sculpted into dinosaurs, giraffes, camels, rabbits, peacocks and more-fantastically done and fantastically cute, just the thing to amuse the kids. Another option for the kids would be the pedal boats they let you rent to explore lakes within the complex, and then of course there’s the petting zoo. Said petting zoo requires no admission fee, but you can donate toward keeping the critters fed: on display are deer, camels, ostriches, cassowaries, iguanas, water buffaloes, several kinds of foxes, and albino peacocks.
Since the garden covers a fairly large area, golf carts are provided at a fee for you to go around without having to strain your calf muscles. There’s also plenty of room for bicycles if that’s what takes your fancy (and, naturally, bicycles to rent). Not to be missed are the camping area (with complete facilities), the organic farm, and rice paddy fields to provide a full range of diverse attractions. Last but not least is the museum, which lets you look at items representing ancient Lanna culture: this area contains traditional houses, each rich with history and folklore.
The museum proper is partitioned into five rooms, each containing respectively photographs and silverware belonging to a Lanna princess who married into the current dynasty, antique spears and swords in a room that pays tribute to the present king cheap coach purses outlet , a room featuring religious relics dedicated to Buddha, earthenware, and cutlery and utensils from Asian archeological sites. Out in the garden is a hedge maze displaying items and depictions of life in feudal Chiang Mai in all its diverse ways. It may not, however, be the best idea to book accommodation around here as it is far from other attractions and far outside the city.

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The International Festival of Street Games, Tocatì, is back in Verona in its ninth edition that this year has the focus on emphasizing the importance of games and leisure traditions as a part of the cultural heritage of many countries.
To this end, the Association of Ancient Games, in collaboration with the local authorities has invited to this year’s event several countries among which Brasil, Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Portugal and Mexico.
Each of these countries will share with the citizens and visitors that will be in Verona the 23rd, 24th and 25th of September some of the most representative traditional games of their cultures, like the Capoeira from Brasil, the Malha from Portugal, l’Ulama de Cadera from Mexico and the Varpa from Sweden. There will also be a place for Italian regional games, as well an area dedicated to board games and one dedicated to more modern street activities like skateboarding.
Among all the initiatives proposed by the Festival’s organization there is one that seeks to encourage the involvement of all the people and families that visit Verona during those days. The idea is to organize workshops and group activities in which one can, for example, create his/her own blowgun or participate in dancing games which can be practised one against one or by teams. A particularly interesting workshop is the one called Ludosophia, that proposes a series of games to start with and then moves on to a discussion on the morals and ethics behind each of these games, touching topics like the benefits from lying, vote systems and the use of stereotypes in traditional games.
The Dixit is one of the newest games introduced in the festival, a 3 to 6 players game invented in 2009 that won the Spiel des Jahres in 2010 and that challenges the linguistic abilities of the players based on a set of cards illustrated by Marie Cardouat. One of the players, the storyteller, chooses one of his 6 cards and enunciates a sentence based on the illustration of that card. The other players have to select among their own cards the one that better matches the storyteller’s sentence and give it to him/her. The storyteller mixes the cards and puts them on the table so that the rest of the players try to figure out which one is his/hers. The ones that take the right guess get 3 points, and so does the storyteller. If all the players know the answer or none of them does, they all get 2 points and the storyteller gets none. After each round, the turn passes to the person sitting to the left of the storyteller. The first to reach 30 points is the winner.
The Tocatì Festival is an event worth visiting specially for those that are curious about the particularities of the cultural traditions in other countries and for those kids at heart that wish to spend a fun family weekend.
This article was written by Alba L with support from festival in Italy.

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