Circle Trip Chiang Mai to Maehongson Tour 3 days 2 nights

Maehongson Package Tours 3 days 2 nights circle Trip from Chiangmai

Maehongson is one of northern Thailand's most well-known multi-day excursions. This Maehongson tour packages is a loop that begins and finishes in Chiang Mai, taking in marked mountain and river scenery together with fascinating towns to explore.
First Day Maehongson Tour Loop :
We switch from Chiang Mai Metropolis within the morning. For first day tours originates in Chiangmai and travels northwest a hundred and fifty km on some steep and zigzag roads via the mountain wilderness to the quaint riverside town of Pai. The scenery is breathtaking along the way in which and we break at at Huai Nam Dong National Park, which is a bit of over halfway to Pai and lunch.

Huai Nam Dang is usually a part of a visit to Maehongson since you cross it on Freeway 1095. Huai Nam Dang National Park mantles an area of one hundred eighty square kms. of Amphoe Mae Taeng, Chiangmai and Amphoe Pai, Mae Hong Son. Many of the areas are ranged highlands. The mountain has a verdant forest, which is the supply of tributaries and various streams.

Sights include: Huai Nam Dang Viewpoint or Doi Kiu Lom overlooks Doi Chiang Dao and is a superb spot to see dawn amid cloudy valleys in the early morning. To get there, drive alongside Mae Malai-Pai Road to between Km. 65-66, and then take a 6-kilometre access highway to the park office.
Highlight : Doi Chang Viewpoint is located 20 kilometres beyond the Huai Nam Dang Viewpoint. Only a four-wheel vehicle could make the trip. The scenic views of natural mountain ranges and early morning sea of cloud could be seen from here.

At that time visit Pong Num Ron Tha Pai (Tha Pai Hot Spring). Take a mineral bathtub for half hour otherwise kick on to Pai. Tha Pai Hot Spring are one of the focal points of Huai Nam Dang National Park, in Maehongson province, eight kilometers south of Pai. The springs provide quite a few bathtubs for guests to bathe in, and additionally it is attainable to wash within the stream that runs through the site. The water from these springs is alleged to have robust therapeutic value.

Continue to cease at Second World War Memorial Bridge that crosses the Pai River. Thereupon take a journey in the idyllic flowers garden and have some coffee before you visit Pai Canyon. This small but beautiful canyon is positioned within the middle of Pai Valley.

Ultimately vacation spot on the this day loop, also price spending an in a single day at is the town of Pai, an surprising find in a distant mountain valley. Twenty years in the past the city of Pai used to be a number of dust roads and retailers, as vacationers quickly found the pure fantastic thing about the Pai River and it’s surrounding valley, businesses and improvement followed not lengthy after and it was the little backpacker settlement that it is today. Common amongst hippy and creative varieties both Thai and international alike, the texture may be very a lot new age. This small city is stuffed with bohemian model cafes, eating places, bookstores and guesthouses.
This night, we keep at Baan Pai Village. We love a nice hut with good backyard view in the principle space of Pai walking street.
Second Day Maehongson Tour Loop :
We are going to begin with a morning journey to Mae Yen temple to enjoy the views over the sleepy town of Pai and the Pai river valley.

Mae Yen temple is small temple on a hill 2 km from Pai is very attention-grabbing for its setting and the view overlooking the town you have got from it. The 353 steps long staircase to achieve the temple is charming even for those who can skip it and take the street to entry to Wat Phra That Mae Yen. The wat consists of two structures and a few small golden pagodas. In front of the temple way in, there's a little market with stalls the place you can buy merchandise, mainly hats and scarves knitted by the seller. They are often very useful as a result of it is chilly at night and in the early morning in Pai.

Then visit to Santichon Village or Chinese Yunnan Village and lunch.
Yunnan Cultural Village offers the lifestyle and Chinese language clay houses. Tourists can taste the inexperienced tea and pork hocks with buns at Baan Santichon surrounded by the mountains of Pai. At Santichon village, we have now to try authentic Yunnan Chinese meals equivalent to pork hocks, buns, steamed black chicken with Chinese herbs, fried shiitake mushroom, and Yunnan girl’s salad.

We'll afterward make our approach towards Mae Hong Son stopping at Tham Lod (Lod Cave) where we are going to explore on bamboo rafts deep into the darkness of those caves. About forty kms. from Pai we'll discover Soppong (that additionally goes by Pangmapha), which is much more to our liking. Famous for Tham Lod, an enormous cave you possibly can raft by means of, that is an area of particular beauty. Cave Lodge is considered the trekking hub for the area.

Tham Lod is considered one in all Thailand's most spectacular caves, partly for its measurement, partly for its enticing limestone stalactite formations and partly for the weird coffin cave hidden within the primary cave. In its entirety, Tham Lod is greater than 1.5 km in length, which continues to be considerably smaller than some of the caves that can be seen in neighbouring Laos and further afield in Vietnam.

The Lang River flows via more than a third of the cave's length, giving you an opportunity to drift via on bamboo rafts floating alongside within the darkness, listening to and smelling the bats overhead, makes for a unique experience. A typical visit features a float by way of a few of the cave followed by climbing by means of different portions to see the coffin cave and a couple of other caverns.
Our next stop will be fish cave where you'll be able to see an considerable array of cave dwelling fish.

Continue to we are going to drive up into the hills round Maehongson and stop to chill out at Phu Klon wellbeing mineral mud spa. Phu klon geographically means a mud source and pure mineral spring which is between 60-a hundred and forty C. Rising together with the mineral water boiling black mud is clean, free from sulfur odor and full of wholesome mineral for the pores and skin and blood circulation.
An overnight stop in Maehongson Town.
The Last Day of Maehongson Tour Loop : 

After breakfast at a neighborhood restaurant in Maehongson drive to Doi Kong Mu Temple. The principle points of interest are the white chedis and sumptuous view. Doi Kong Mu Temple. This temple is especially atmospheric within the early morning with mist and low cloud usually filling the valley below. By midday, the heat of the solar normally clears the air to depart stunning views of the valley beneath and mountains beyond. The larger pagoda was built in 1860 and comprises the relics of Phra Moggalana, one of many disciples of Buddha. The smaller chedi was created in 1874, by Phraya Singhanatracha, the primary governor of Maehongson.

Next visit to Karen Longneck Village, Karen Longneck Village space was bigger, with a number of homes, a church and even a school. The village wasn’t completely occupied by just the long neck women, with a few of the ladies as an alternative displaying elongated ear lobes, rings round their calves, and even some in just plain clothes with no bodily adornments. Lots of the girls had been congregating collectively whereas the lengthy neck women would sit by their houses, with handmade items on show for purchase.

After lunch visit Kaew Komol Cave or Diamon Cave (Calcite cave, there's solely three locations in the world.). It is very beautiful however not allow to take a picture inside. Kaew Komol Park is a forest park with a hot spring (now covered by the brand new Mae Hu reservoir) and fluorite mines. The cave was discovered inside a now abandoned fluorite mine. Obviously the geology is slightly complicated and attention-grabbing for a karst area. A end result are really extraordinary speleothems, like popcorn calcite, aragonite and other strange things. This cave is alleged to be essentially the most beautiful cave of Thailand.

Eventually trip, back to Chiang Mai on soutern path and have a dinner at Ob-Luang National park by the river.