Chang Mai and then?

Not sure what kind of advice you're after? - ie day to day travel/accommodation tips, or itinerary (as you seem to know where you want to go already...?) -
but if you have 4 weeks, I'd suggest a couple more places you might be interested to visit; ie I guess you're flying into Bangkok first, which is definitely worth a couple of days at least, there are some good things to see eg Wat Pho and Wat Arun amongst other places. If you're going to be in Chiang Mai, you could spend a day or two in Lampang, just a couple of hours south of there - there's an elephant conservation centre there and if you're into doing stuff, they run a really really good one day mahout (elephant trainer) course where you spend the day learning to ride and control an elephant - actually on the elephant, not on a seat. You learn to give commands, climb on and off the elephant, ride it all around the centre, bath them (huge fun!). If you google Lampang and elephant conservation centre, it'll pull up the website. If you don't want to do that, just visiting the centre for a day is great and you could get there and back in a day from Chiang Mai. If you are travelling from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, there are good places to stop all the way up, eg the River Kwai at Kanchanaburi, Ayutthaya and Sukothai. But I can't tell what you want to do from what you say, sounds like you want more time in Vietnam .
I'd also say give yourself a couple of days in Luang Prabang instead of going straight on - if you're getting there via the 2 day Mekong river trip from the Laos border, you'll need it, and it's a lovely town to hang out in. Trust me, once you see it, you'll want to stay!
Can't say anything about where you want to go in Vietnam as I only went north of where you say, and went straight from Da Nang to Saigon.



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