Chiang Mai Highlights: Doi Suthep & Doi Inthanon (4D3N)

Itinerary

ARRIVAL IN CHIANG MAI - LANNA TEMPLES & DOI SUTHEP

Arrive at Chiang Mai Airport, meet your local English-speaking guide, and transfer to your hotel for check-in. Free time at leisure.

Pick up from your hotel lobby and depart to Wat Chedi Luang, built in the late 14th century. Once the tallest monument in Chiang Mai, it originally housed the Emerald Buddha, Thailand’s most sacred religious relic.

Continue to Wat Phra Singh (1345), renowned for its stunning Lanna-style viharn and the finest scripture repository in Northern Thailand.

Depart for Doi Suthep Temple, one of Northern Thailand’s most sacred temples, built in 1383. Perched 1,050 metres above sea level, its golden chedi enshrines holy relics of the Buddha, with panoramic views over Chiang Mai and the Ping valley. Ascend the 306-step Naga staircase, symbolising the spiritual journey towards nirvana, or take the tram to the summit. Afterwards, return to your hotel.

ELEPHANT CARE - A HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IN CHIANG MAI

Pick up from your hotel lobby and depart to Elephant Care Center for a memorable elephant care experience. Upon arrival, visit the Elephant Culture Museum and learn about the important role of elephants in Thai society, their lifestyle and ongoing conservation efforts.

Continue with a hands-on activity by feeding the elephants bananas and sugar cane. Enjoy close interaction while observing their gentle nature and natural behaviour. Next, take part in the elephant poo paper production process and discover how recycled elephant dung is transformed into eco-friendly paper products. Afterwards, learn about traditional herbal treatments for elephants and make your own herb and fruit nutritional vitamin balls, a healthy snack the elephants love.

Conclude the experience by watching the elephants bathe under the waterfall. You may choose to simply observe or help wash the elephants for a fun and refreshing activity.

Lunch is provided at a local restaurant. Afterwards, return to your hotel.

DOI INTHANON - HIGHLANDS, WATERFALLS & KAREN VILLAGE

Pick up from your hotel lobby and depart to Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand’s highest mountain (2,565 metres above sea level), offering evergreen mountain forests, dwarf rhododendron groves, rare bird life, and impressive waterfalls. Visit the summit and walk along the Angka Nature Trail.

Continue to the Twin Royal Pagodas, built in honour of His Majesty the King and Her Royal Highness the Queen of Thailand, offering marvellous views over the surrounding valley.

Lunch is provided at a local restaurant.

Depart for a Karen Hill Tribe Village to experience their traditional lifestyle amid green forests, rice terraces, and coffee plantations.

Visit Vachiratharn Waterfall, a large waterfall plummeting around 100 metres into a deep pool below, one of the highest in Northern Thailand. Afterwards, return to your hotel.

FAREWELL TO CHIANG MAI

Check out from your hotel and depart to Chiang Mai Airport for your flight to the next destination.