Chiang Mai City Guide and Directories

So much to do, and so little time? Enjoy the full Chiang Mai experience with our directories and travel guides. Need to get active? Choose how best to spend your time in Chiang Mai with our attractions and activities guides. After a day's sightseeing discover the benefits of spa and massage; use our spa directories to choose the best spa and health resort for your needs. Find out where to get the biggest bargains and best quality handicrafts with our Chiang Mai shopping guide.

Khantoke and Thai restaurants - sample the northern flavours of Chiang Mai's finest eateries or choose an international cuisine with our Chiang Mai restaurant directories. Know your area - location guides to Chiang Mai and it's surrounding provinces with information on attractions, activities, dining out, shopping, transportation and accommodation. Don't waste your time in Chiang Mai; travel information, city guide and directories to help you make the most of your stay in North Thailand.

Hotels & Resorts Book your hotels online with confidence. We have a wide range of discounted hotels in Chiang Mai from budget rooms to five star luxuries, all with a lowest price guarantee.

Nightlife When the sun goes down forget about trekking and elephants; start the night with a cold beer in an English pub, bar hop at Thapae Gate, and finish it all with live music on the riverside.

Dining Out Treat yourself to a real Thai dining experience - teak wood tables, traditional dancing and music and authentic Thai dishes - try a Kantoke dinner and discover that Northern Thai flavour.

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Spa & Massage
Still not relaxed enough, a few days trekking taken your strength away? Visit the spa centres of Chiang Mai for a well deserved pampering in the most scenic surroundings.

Shops & Shopping
Chiang Mai handicraft shopping is the best in Thailand - silverware, woodcarvings, hilltribe products at bargain prices. Learn where to find the best shopping markets in Chiang Mai.

Getting Around
Travel with the locals in a songtaew, but can you get the local fare? Is the traffic too busy to hire your own bike? All your Chiang Mai transport questions answered here.

In & Around
In Chiang Mai for shopping, partying or trekking? Find the best location for your needs. Escaping over the city wall? The mountains of Chiang Rai are just a short journey north.

Attractions & Sightseeing
Trek up the highest mountain in Thailand, or take a dip in the local hot springs. Elephant trekking, visits to hilltribe villages and museums, attractions take on a traditional air.

Chiang Mai

Often described as the rose of the North, Chiang Mai is the second largest city in the Kingdom of Thailand, located 700 miles North of Bangkok. Chiang Mai also known as the 'land of the million rice fields' an old reference to the Lanna Thai Kingdom which ruled Northern Thailand during the 13th-16th centuries and who founded Chiang Mai in 1296 and flourished until invasion by the Burmese drove the Thai people South.

Over recent years Chiang Mai had had a more recent invasion, albeit a more pleasant one from holiday makers worldwide wishing to visit the historical city and beautiful province of Chiang Mai.

Chiang Mai's attraction for holiday makers is no surprise, it's scenic, peaceful and as well as excellent hotel and resort facilities it is also home to great golf courses and is becoming renowned as a world class spa destination.

What else does Chiang Mai have to offer? The list is endless, great food influenced by it's Burmese, Chinese and Laos neighbors, a shopper's paradise for those shopping for handicrafts and the more traditional Thai goods, scenic trekking, whitewater rafting and kayaking and mountain biking in Northern Thailand's mountains, meditation, cooking and massage courses, as well as sightseeing at some truly magnificent temples, and this is just a selection of what you can expect from a visit to Chiang Mai holiday.

Chiang Mai is known as one of the cheapest places to visit in Thailand so everything you want to experience can be experienced on a modest budget.