DAY 01: CHIANG RAI / WHITE TEMPLE + CITY TEMPLES
Arrive to Chiang Rai Airport, meet and greet with Local English speaking guide. Depart to visit White Temple (Rong Khun Temple); designed by the famous national artist. The main temple building is a distinctive white color, decorated with fragments of reflective glass which can be seen from afar.
Continue to Blue Temple (Rong Sued Ten Temple); designed by the local Chiang Rai artist who used to the team work of White Temple before. The main temple building is a distinctive blue color with the new philosophy of Buddhist art
Then visit to Black House, (Baandum Museum); belongs to the national artist who is celebrated for his eerie sculptures made from horns and bones, reptile skins, traditional African sculptures, old boats, Lanna-style woodcrafts and art installations housed across 32 buildings, most of which are Lanna-style pavilions made from black wood.
Depart to Emerald Buddha Temple (Phra Kaew Temple); where the Emerald Buddha image was once enshrined. Now it is replaced with a jade Buddha image which was made to commemorate the 90th birthday of the late Princess Mother. Then transfer to the hotel for check in and free at leisure.
Overnight: Chiang Rai
Meal: x
DAY 02: CHIANG RAI / LONG NECK TRIBE / MAE SAI BORDER / GOLDEN TRIANGLE / CHIANG SAEN
08:00 Hrs. Pick up from hotel lobby and depart to visit the Long Neck Tribe Village; the woman wears several brass rings around their long, slender necks. A woman generally has about twenty or more rings around her neck. They are originated from Shan state, The Union of Myanmar
Then visit Mae Sai Town, the Thailand-Myanmar border and the northernmost point of Thailand. Enjoy shopping Myanmar products at the local market.
Lunch served at the local restaurant
Continue to visit the Golden Triangle where the borders of three countries; Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar are met. See the Golden Buddha Statue and the panoramic view of Mekong River. Then visit the Opium Museum, displaying all the stories about the opium and the Golden Triangle.
Depart to Chiang Saen Town, which ancient city originated around 1328; visit the multitude of sites including ancient ruins of temples, stupas, and ancient city wall and moat. Then transfer back to the hotel
Overnight: Chiang Rai
Meal: Lunch (1)
DAY 03: CHIANG RAI / DOI TUNG ROYAL VILLA & DOI MAE SALONG + HILLTRIBE VILLAGE
08:00 Hrs. Pick up from hotel lobby and depart to Doi Mae Salong, on the way stops at Akha Hill tribe Village, the most beautiful women’s head wares, decorated with assorted coins, shells, beats feathers and animals for Akha is originated from China. Also visit to Yao Hill tribe Village who originate in southern China, and are the only hill tribe to have a written language and their houses built usually of wooden planks on a dirt road
Continue to Santi Kiri Village (Yunan Chinese Comities), with its Tea Plantations and also co-op store where homemade wines, medical herbs and other locally grown products are sold. They are ethnic Chinese, descendents of KMT Nationalist Chinese army regiment that took refuge in Thailand almost 50 years ago
Lunch served at the local restaurant.
Drive up to the highest mountain peak on the Thai/Myanmar border; Doi Tung, 2,000 meters above sea level. In the past, shifting slash-and-burn cultivation destroyed the forest around Doi Tung area. Until 1987 when the Doi Tung Development. Project was established in accordance to the King’s Mother initiative.
Visit to Mae Fah Luang Garden; it’s built in 1992 on an area of 12 Rai. This garden grows winter flowers and decorative plants with beautiful flowers taking turn to bloom season by season. Continue to The Royal Villa of the late Princess Mother (the King's mother), the most beautiful combination styles of the northern Thai and Swiss winter villa. Then transfer back to the hotel
Overnight: Chiang Rai
Meal: Lunch (2)
DAY 04: CHIANG RAI / DEPARTURE
Check out from the hotel and transfer to Chiang Rai Airport for flight to next destination.
Overnight: x
Meal: x