Chiang Mai fabulously offers various scenes and flavors of attractions. Once visiting Chiang Mai, you are likely to feel as if you are facing lines of windows through which leads to the wondrous discoveries. When you choose either of them, you would run into the different realm. While one window is opened, you run into the mysteriously ancient town with a stunning traditional culture; a second later, you will shift into the completely different world in the middle of distinctive beauty of nature; suddenly, when you pace out to another window, you find again the hidden valley of hill tribe people in the mountains. So, take your time for choosing one of these windows of discovery or even unclose all of them.

Ancient city and around
Just entering Chiang Mai town, you can immediately experience an ambience of ancient time due to the walls and moats of the old city. The present Chiang Mai town lay on the location, known as Wiang Nophaburi, of a small settlement of the indigenous Lawa in the past. The town lies between the Ping River to the east and Doi Suthep to the west. The layout of the city is in a form of square enclosed by moats and walls that face the cardinal directions. This plan is based on the astrological concept that the city pillar at the center represents Mount Sumeru which is considered as the center of the universe in Brahmanic cosmology; the walls and moats symbolize the mountains and seas of the outer universe.

Around the areas of the old city and beyond are teemed with several historical sites, especially temples which represent both historical exuberance and also their magnificently characteristic arts of Lan Na Kingdom......Read more >>

Natural Beauty
Nestling in the fertile valley hugged by the towering ranges of mountains, Chiang Mai offers the distinctively natural beauty with a wide variety of the striking landscape; green tapestry of forested mountains, waterfall, gorge, and so on. With its fertility and abundance of vegetations as well as animal, several National Parks were thus established around Chiang Mai Valley, allowing more charming attractions to the province.....Read more >>

Hidden Valleys
Amidst the rugged, mountainous areas covering most parts of the province, there exist the hidden kingdoms of people of the hills who still have their own culture, tradition together with their characteristics. Once being considered as a minority of Thai people, and cut off the main stream culture, the hill tribe people became nowadays an integrated part of Thai population; they have more relations with lowlands people that the modern values along with the development start infiltrating and affecting their culture. Despite that, they still retain their own traditional beliefs, cultures as well as their own language at some remarkable degrees. Accordingly, it is a good opportunity for visitors who are curious to learn or appreciate the different culture in their kingdom hugged by the towering mountains. How they live, believe, and earn their lives is actually worth learning.

The hill tribes did not start moving into hills of northern Thailand until the 20th century when Communism in China, Laos, and Vietnam burst out. For that reason, they migrated to find the relative peace in Thailand. Most of hill tribe people migrated from the southern China via Myanmar and Laos; and they settled their own community in the valleys along the mountain ranges in northern Thailand......Read more >>

Folk Art Appreciation
Since Chiang Mai is the center of artifact industry, there are villages specialized in producing these characteristic handicrafts, and it is a good chance to experience how they are being made........Read more >>