| 08:30 hrs | Pick up from the hotel and drive up to Doi Mae Salong, on the way stops at Akha Hill tribe Village, the most beautiful women’s head wares, decorated with assorted coins, shells, beats feathers and animals. Also visit to Yao Hill tribe Village who originate in southern China, and are the only hill tribe to have a written language and their houses built usually of wooden planks on a dirt road. Continue to Santi Kiri Village, with its tea & coffee plantations and also co-op store where home made wines, medical herbs and other locally grown products are sold. The villagers are ethnic Yunan Chinese, descendents of KMT (Kuo Min Tung) Nationalist Chinese army regiment that took refuge in Thailand almost 50 years ago when Communist Forces won the civil war in mainland China.
Lunch serve at the local restaurant
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| 13:00 hrs | Drive up to the highest mountain peak on the Thai/Burma border; Doi Tung, 2,000 meters above sea level. In the past, shifting slash-and-burn cultivation destroyed the forest around Doi Tung area. Until 1987 when the Doi Tung Development. Project was established in accordance to the King’s Mother initiative; Visit to Mae Fah Luang Garden, It’s built in 1992 on an area of 12 Rai. This garden grows winter flowers and decorative plants with beautiful flowers taking turn to bloom season by season. Continue to The Royal Villa of the late Princess Mother (the King’s mother), the most beautiful combination styles of the northern Thai and Swiss winter villa. Then transfer back to the hotel. |
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