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| Wat Phrathat is the big attraction in the area but Chiang Mai proper also has countless temples – wander around and you’re bound to find more than a few. And if you’d like to hike the surrounding forests, ride an elephant, and/or take a bamboo raft down some rapids, any tour company can arrange it (hint: don’t go on day trips, as those are places set up for tourists, not true jungle or wilderness).
Trips are available to many hill tribe villages, to see the long necks of one or the bead work of another. Again, if you do this as part of a longer hike, you are much more likely to see a true working village, as opposed to a tourist trap.
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| Nothing compares to Wat Phrathat, commonly called Doi Suthep as it sits atop the mountain of the same name. The story goes a Lanna king had a relic of the Buddha which miraculously duplicated itself. He put the relic on the back of a white elephant (an auspicious animal in Thailand) and declared wherever the elephant chose would be the relic’s new home.And the elephant climbed the mountain and... |  |
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