Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand. Its center is an ideal square, walled (rebuilt in 1960) with bastions (17th century). Chiang Mai is often used as a transit point for sallying into the jungle or excursions to settlements of mountain tribes, trips to the Golden Triangle on the border with Burma and Laos. However, the city itself can boast of a considerable number of historical and architectural monuments.
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How to get here
From Bangkok to Chiang Mai you can get on the bus (about 200 THB) or by plane (from 100 USD, travel time about an hour). In Chiang Mai, international flights from China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Korea, Cambodia, Singapore, Taiwan are carried out.
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Climate Chiang Mai
Clear +35 ° С in the afternoon +23 ° C at night ° С water |
Clear +36 ° С in the afternoon +24 ° C at night ° С water |
Clear +36 ° С in the afternoon +22 ° C at night ° С water |
| Weather in Chiang Mai on 10 days | ||
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | sen | Oct | but I | Dec | |
| in the afternoon | +28 | +31 | +34 | +36 | +33 | +32 | +31 | +31 | +31 | +31 | +29 | +27 |
| at night | +14 | +15 | +18 | +22 | +23 | +24 | +23 | +23 | +23 | +22 | +19 | +15 |
Transport
In the city you can move on trishaws, three-wheeled tuk-tuk and in sing-teo - open pick-ups used as a taxi. The color of the machines means a route: for example, the red cruise through the Old City. There are also minibuses of white, yellow, blue and green colors. The fare is about 20 THB.
Tuk-tuki in Chiang Mai are more popular than taxis. The fare in them varies from 30 to 100 THB depending on the length of the route. The city is also visited by tricycles, outwardly similar to tuk-tukami. Catching a taxi on the street is impossible: they are called by phone.
You can rent a motorcycle or a bicycle: the first will cost with insurance in the 100-700 THB per day depending on the model, and the second will cost from 30 THB per day.
There are car hire points at the airport and in the city center. The average cost is from 1200 to 2000 THB per day.
Kitchen and restaurants
Chiang Mai is considered the second gastronomic capital of Thailand after Bangkok, and "taxis" in it the culinary school of the north of the country. The city has restaurants with vegetarian cuisine, as well as establishments specializing in seafood dishes. Those who are tired of the spicy Thai cuisine will be pleased with a wide choice of restaurants with Western cuisine: from pro-American hamburgers to quasi-Italian pasta.
Entertainment, sightseeing and sightseeing Chiang Mai
In the city and its environs there are about 300 temples and historical monuments. The most notable are Doi-Suter-Shrin, Wat Phra Singh, Wat Chiang Man (the oldest monastery in the region), Pra-Satang-Man with miniature Buddha images, which are about 2 thousand years old, Wat Chedi-Luang, standing at the top of the mountain at 16 km from Chiangmai Temple of Wat Phra Doi Suthep (13-14 cc.) and the palace of Phuping (summer residence of the Royal Family).
5 km from Chiang Mai lie the ruins of Viang-Kum-Kam. In 300 km - the historical reserve Sukhothai, which protects more than 100 buildings of this ancient capital of the country (13-15 centuries).
Not far from the city there is a unique "Orchid Farm", as well as the famous "Elephant Village".
Photo of Chiang Mai (22)