Chiang Rai Express: White Temple & Golden Triangle from Chiang Mai (2D1N)

Itinerary

Chiang Mai – Chiang Rai / White Temple & City Temples

Pick up from your hotel lobby in Chiang Mai and depart to Chiang Rai by road (3 hours’ drive) along picturesque scenic routes through several beautiful northern mountains. On the way, visit the local Hot Spring at Mae Ka Chan Town for a short break, watching locals boil quail’s eggs.

Arrive in Chiang Rai and visit White Temple (Wat Rong Khun), designed by a celebrated national artist, its distinctive white main building decorated with fragments of reflective glass.

Lunch is provided at a local restaurant.

Continue to Blue Temple (Wat Rong Suea Ten), its striking blue main building reflecting a new philosophy of Buddhist art.

Depart to Black House (Baan Dam Museum), home to eerie sculptures crafted from horns, bones, reptile skins, and traditional woodcraft across 32 Lanna-style pavilions.

Visit Wat Huay Pla Kang, home to the tallest statue of Guan Yin, standing 79 meters tall, and the Nine-Story Pagoda. Afterwards, transfer to your hotel for check-in and leisure time.

Chiang Rai – Chiang Mai / Long Neck Tribe, Mae Sai Border & Golden Triangle

Pick up from your hotel lobby and depart to Long Neck Karen Village, home to women who wear brass rings around their necks, a tradition originating from Shan State in Myanmar.

Continue to Mae Sai Town, the Thailand–Myanmar border and northernmost point of Thailand, with local markets selling Myanmar goods.

Lunch is provided at a local restaurant.

Visit the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet, and the Opium Museum, then Chiang Saen Town, an ancient city with ruins of temples and the old city wall and moat.

Depart to Chiang Mai (3 hours’ drive) by road. Arrive and transfer to your hotel for check-in, or to Chiang Mai Airport for your onward flight.