Less than an hour's drive from Chiang Mai, amid thickly-forested hills and misty valleys, lies the Mae-Sa Valley Resort. Individual thatched-roof houses and bamboo cottages provide accommodation that blends with the setting. The cultivated terraces provide a riot of tropical and temperate flowers, along with all the vegetables served fresh at the restaurant. The thatched-roof houses are of local wood and woven matting, each decorated in the colourful northern style. The stilted bamboo cottages have been created in the traditional pattern, each with a twin-bed room and spacious balcony.`