yeah that makes sense to me. I also read that soft power visas are more likely to be approved in the first place with a 6 month course rather than 2 week.
My concern would also be that an immigration officer would assume I’m working if I had taken a 6 month professional cooking course.
just to be clear, say you do the two weeks in Chiang Mai, then after it’s over you can go anywhere in Thailand but you need to leave every 6 months. When you renter they don’t ask for any documentation except for the visa. Is that correct?
Israel hasn’t stamped in years (you get a printout) and Israelis can visit Egypt and vice versa. Lots of holiday makers in Sinai! (Well maybe not now…)