The land of Wat Umong covers more than 37 rais of land mostly covered in woods. Wat Umong means the tunnel temple, Wat= temple, and Umong=tunnel. The temple date back to 1297 where it was built by the Lanna King Manglai. The most famous attraction at the temple is its tunnels. The legend says the…
Take route 118 in direction of Chiang Rai you find Wat Doi Saket on the right-hand side app. 30 kilometers north of Chiang Mai. Translated Wat Doi Saket means, Temple mountain Saket, or the Saket mountain temple. Wat=Temple, Doi=Moutain, and Saket is a name. It is a quite big Temple with a lot to look…
From old times San Kamphaeng Hot Springs was grassland, the people used the hot springs, and wells for bathing and boiling bamboo shoot… In the start of the 1970s when the oil prices were high, because of the worldwide oil crisis, the Thai government have an idea that it could use San Kamphaeng Hot Springs to…
Kham Tiang flower market in Chiang Mai is the place to go if you are in Northern Thailand and need plants for your garden. It is almost only a market for plants and garden supplies, so if you want to make a beautiful tropical garden Kham Tiang flower market in Chiang Mai, have everything you need. It is the…
King Saen Muang Ma started to build Wat Chedi Luang, or as it originally was called Phra Chedi Luang, in the 14 century. He wanted to enshrine the ashes of his father. however, the wat was first finished by King Tilokaraj in the 15 century, almost a hundred years later. Wat Chedi Luang was the tallest…
Chiang Mai old city was founded 1296 around and it was built as a walled city surrounded by a moat, which you can still see the remains of today. Most of the walls have collapsed, or the bricks have been used for other constructions in Chiang Mai, but the corner towers still stand almost intact. Each…
Wat Suan Dok was built by the Lanna King Kue Na in the year 1370 It was originally built in one of the Lawa people’s walled settlement and is older than Chiang Mai itself. The Lawa people are an ethnic group from northern Thailand, they are still not integrated into the Thai society, and today…