Chiang Mai Markets

Chiang Mai Markets



Your map: Map Yellow.co.th can be searched by street and market names (and hotels, and temples, and...). With this map you can easily prepare your way.


Night Bazaar: The famous venue for shopping in the night. The market with hundreds of street vendor stalls and shops has everything: Clothes, Thai silk, shoes, pirated CDs and DVDs, handicrafts, cameras, jewelry - a lot made in China, some products by the hilltribe people. The goods may be cheaper on markets, where there are not so many tourists. But you can bargain. If you are the first customer, you can get a good price, because it means bad luck, if the first customer doen't buy. And late in the night you get good prices for final sales.
Find your way: The market follows Chang Khlan Road and side streets, between Thaphae and Loi Khro road.
Open: From sunset till midnight.



















Anusarn Night Market: A walking street every night, where you find hilltribe goods in traditional styles. And a great place for dinner, where the locals eat their noodles. A large suqare with tables and food stalls on the side. You can enjoy here Northern Thai specialities, for example the hot green chili dip called nam prik awn. Or try khao soi, flat egg noodles in a soup with chicken or beef. Black chili paste, lime, shallots, bean sprouts or other vegetables are served with it.
Find your way: The market is near Chang Khlan Road, between Anusarn Sunthon Road in the North and Si Don Chai Road in the South.

Warorot Market: Are you looking for real Thai life more than for touristic sights? Warorot Market, called "Kad Luang กาดหลวง" by the locals, is an old Shopping Center in a large building with food on the ground floor. So you will find pig heads or cooked and dried fish, herbs and spices and any kind of vegetables and also mushrooms. Lok for Northern style food as "Kaeb Moo” (crispy fried pig skin), “Moo Yaw” (pork sausage) or “Nam Prik Num”(hot green chilly sauce). On the second and third floor you discover clothes for cheaper prices than in the Night Bazaar, Handbags, Pillow covers, handicrafts or beauty articles. Around the building there are stalls with everything from shoes to gems.
Find your way: From Night Bazaar you follow Changklan Road to the North, until it intersects with Changmoi Road near Mae Ping River. Then the market will be at your left. Here is Chiang Mai's Chinatown.
Open: During the day until 5 pm.



Muang Mai Market: The place, where you get the food very fresh from the farmers and cheap. It's a wholesale area. There are stalls, shops and also pick up trucks. You will find huge amounts of cabbages, garlic, wstermelons, pineabbles and a lot more fruits and vegetables and also a section with meat and seafood and of course stalls selling curry pastes.
Find your way: Wang Sing Kham Road, from Warorot Market to North.

Ton Lamyai Market: This market smells like heaven. It's the fresh cut flower market. It's perfumed by so many different blossoms. Your eye will catch the buckets full of orchids, in hundreds of varieties and coulours, but also roses, chrysanthemums, lotus and marigolds as well as birds of paradise. The flowers arrive in the night, so it's the best time to go.
Find your way: Chang Khlan Road, close to Worarot Market and Anuson Bridge.
Open: 24 hours.

Wualai Walking Street: Are you looking for silver and lacquer ware? Then you are right at Wualai Street, where elegant old wooden houses show the past glory of the silversmiths of Chiang Mai. There are still many shops, well known for old technique and good quality. And every Saturday evening the road is closed for the traffic and a Walking street. Along one kilometer you find handicrafts, clothes, musical instruments, food and young artists exhibiting their work. And Lanna dancing performances from various schools in Chiang Mai are staged. Then there is Wat Sri Suphan, one of the temple buildings is decorated in shining silver.



More about the Street you read on the website of Wualai community. Then you find here a shop with crafts of hilltribe people Bann Wualai. Or you decide for a Kantoke Dinner with a hilltribe show at Old Chiangmai Cultural Center.
Find your way: Near the Gate at the south side of the old city. You leave by Phra Pok Klao Road, outside the wall you turn right, walk on Chiang Lo Road, from where Wualai Road will point to Southwest.
Open: Walking Street every Satuarday from around 5 pm till 11 pm.

Ratchadamnoen Walking Street: Full of excitement, thanks to the large crowd of people enjoying the night in the heart of the old city, shopping, drinking, eating, listening to musicians, looking at art and craftsmanships of Northern Thailand, Thai dancers or puppet shows. Many stallowners sell personally made goods from wood to metals, ceramics, fabrics, paper and more. In a number of temples along the road the stallowners sell meals cooked in front of your eyes.
Find your way: From Tha Pae Gate follow Ratchdamnoen Road.
Open: Every Sunday from 5 pm till midnight.
























Massage by the female prison

Chiang Mai's female prison has a massage shop, popular by tourists and residents. The women in the prison can learn massage there and earn money and with that they often support their families. As Bangkok Post writes, also women, who have left prison, are working there, because they see it as a way for reintegration in society. Go to the west end of Ratchwitee Road and turn right and you will find the womens prison at your right hand. The massage shop is nearby at 100 Ratchwitee Rd.

Thailand’s Top Destinations 1st Month Update

Ok, this contest has just passed its 1st month run. Here’s the update on 1st June.

From Bangkokpost.com:

At this stage, Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Krabi top the list of provinces with the highest number of nominated destinations.

Among Chiang Mai’s candidates are its old city, Doi Luang Chiang Dao (a mountain in a wildlife sanctuary named after it), Wat Chan village, the Doi Angkhang Royal Project, the Bo Sang Umbrella Centre and four national parks - Doi Inthanon, Doi Suthep, Mae Fang and Huai Nam Dang.

The nominated sites in Bangkok include the Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Wat Benchamabophit, Wat Pho, the Erawan Shrine, Lumphini Park and the Suan Pakkad Palace Museum.

In Krabi province, the Phi Phi islands, Tha Pom, Railay beach and Tap Khaek beach are among the places on the list.

High number of destinations does give the tourist more choices. Which is your favourite?

Chiangmai Tourism Shifting to Mice

From Bangkokpost.com:

CHIANG MAI : Local tourism businesses are committed to repositioning Chiang Mai as a destination for the meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition (Mice) business in place of leisure travel in an effort to address a tourism slowdown in the province.

The northern province has been seen as a leisure tourism destination for 30 years but few new tourism products have been developed to attract return visitors, according to Kanok Suwansutr, president of the Northern Chapter of the Thai Hotels Association.

”The private sector hopes that the repositioning of Chiang Mai will help attract Mice visitors to revisit throughout the entire year, not just for [the October-February high] season at present,” said Mr Kanok.

Full report here.

Discover North Thailand

Day 1 - Bangkok - Chiang Rai (B)
This morning you'll fly to Chiang Rai (the older sister of Chiang mai), Heading to Check in at a beautiful Dusit Island. After relaxing time in afternoon. You will enjoy the lush green carpet of mountain forests, emerald valleys, and electric green rice fields. Natural beauty and clean air invigorate the senses.

Visit to Wat Rongkhun, on the outskirts of Chiang Rai, is a stunning temple which is both modern and reflects Lanna style (Northern Thai Style) in pure white with mirror accents. If you are lucky you might meet Chalermchai Kositpipat, the artist who created it. This evening, check Chiang Rai’s Night bazaar, with a large outdoor food court and live entertainment.

Day 2 – Fining Gold? Why they call Golden triangle ……at Chiang Rai – Golden triangle (B) (L)
Head out of Chiang Rai to Mae sai. You will enjoy the lush green carpet of mountain forests, emerald valleys, and electric green rice fields. Natural beauty and clean air invigorate the senses. Mae sai Thakilek see the way of life of Myanmar and Thailand people if you want cross to Myanmar your passport is needed, Mae sai well know of trade hub of Jade and Ruby leave Mae sai continue to Golden triangle where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos meet and was an area for trading an opium . Lunch here at local restaurant. See a panoramic of Maekong River origin from Himalaya range.crosssing to Laos is possible with out making visa. Please feel free talk to your tour guide. Next to Chiang Sean the ancient city found on 1925 with old temple some are under the water.
To the city get traditional massage or relax at the hotel
Day 3 – That on river. (B)(L)

Embarkation at hotel pier in the morning time. Relax flowing on Mae Kok River trip by the typical long tail boats. Through a picturesque view of a 2.5 hours Mae Kok River trip. Stop along the way to visit the Karen Hill tribe Village, Lisu Village situated on the river side, Lunch at Thaton River view. On the way to Chiang Mai stop to adventure at Chiang Dao Cave. Continue to CM.

Day 4 Today you are free at explore Chiang Mai at your leisure (B)
Day 5 – Chiang mai sightseeing.(B)
Spend relaxing time the morning at your hotel .your tour guide will meet you in the afternoon take you to visit Wat Prather Doi Suthep, the most famous and sacred temple in northern Thailand, Enjoy the panoramic of Chiang Mai as well as a traditional Hmong village.
Your tour guide will arrange tuk tuk take you to traditional Dining with Lanna, hill tribe Dancing show. To Hotel or Drop you off at night market.

  • Remark on Sat night and Sun night the night market is relocated. Sat night at Woo Lai road. Sun night at tha tae gate.

Day 6 prove you skill with Cooking Class 1 (B)(L)
Meet you trainer at hotel 9:30A.M. trainer will introduce to Thai ingredients and alternatives you can substitute back home, how to make savory curry pastes used in a multitude of dishes, touring Chiang Mai's fabulous fresh market, learning to carve vegetables and fruits into sensational attention-getting artworks. Lunch with your own special menu!
Day 7 – Be known your name by elephant with Chiang Mai mahout training class

Transfer from your hotel to Mae Teang district and welcoming by real mahout who will give an introduction about elephant, biological, characteristics and health care. Then you will enjoy elephant show and will be getting familiar with the baby elephants and giving them some food. After lunch at nature view of river. Mahout will teach you basic command: sit down, stand up, turn left right and dance for a few hours. Then time to take elephants to wash at Mae Ping River and tie them like they usually do everyday

Day 8 - Chiang Mai - Departures (B)
Today you are free at explore Chiang Mai at your leisure before we transfer you to the airport for your departure flight and wish you bon voyage.

  • Total 8 Days 7 Nights Package included Accommodation and tours Private Service
*Price For 2 pax price rate up to hotel
*Dusit Island Chiang Rai & Dusit D2 Hotel Chiang Mai 1850 USD
*Legend Chiang Rai &Rachamankha Chiang Mai 1950 USD
  • Private tour Only 880 USD

The Juniper Tree, Chiang Mai

Location
The Juniper Tree, Chiang Mai is situated in a secluded area near the city centre. It is located about 10-15 minutes drive from the International Airport and 5 to 10 minutes from the railway station and city centre. (Click here for map). There is a 9 hole golf course within walking distance and it’s just a short taxi ride to banks, travel agents, supermarkets and shopping malls, as well as Chiang Mai’s famous Night Market.

Accommodation
We can accommodate up to 80 people in our 34 bedrooms. The accommodation is in 17 wooden traditional Thai-style houses set in attractive gardens. Each house is made up of 1 or more bedrooms and some have connecting rooms.

Each room has air-conditioning, ensuite hot water shower and western-style toilet, plus telephone and email facilities (if you have your own computer). Bed linen and towels are provided.

Please note:
• We aim to keep our running expenses as low as possible and consequently our rooms are comfortable but not luxurious.
• Due to our need to accommodate the maximum number of people, we cannot guarantee a particular room or house.

Meals
We have a large dining room serving 3 meals per day. Many guests enjoy the opportunity for fellowship that meal times provide. Some meals give you a taste of Thai cuisine, others are Western favourites.
Although we run on a full-board basis, it is possible to sign out of some meals to enable you to take trips further away, or sample some of Chiang Mai’s plentiful restaurants.