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Golden Triangle and Chiang Rai Day Tour: Visit White, Black, Blue Temples from Chiang Mai
3.8
29 Ratings
Tambon Si Phum
Experience the highlights of Chiang Rai province in one day with a Golden Triangle and Chiang Rai Day Tour. Visit the iconic White, Black, and Blue Temples, explore the Golden Triangle, and immerse yourself in the art, culture, and scenic landscapes of Chiang Rai. Book now!
Experience the highlights of Chiang Rai province in one day with a Golden Triangle and Chiang Rai Day Tour. Visit the iconic White, Black, and Blue Temples, explore the Golden Triangle, and immerse yourself in the art, culture, and scenic landscapes of Chiang Rai. Book now!
Duration:
14 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Mae Khachan Hot Spring - Among the rare natural hot springs in northern Thailand, Mae Kachan Hot Spring (also known as Mae Ka Chan) reaches impressive temperatures of 194˚F (90˚C), hot enough to boil an egg in just a few minutes, a demonstration locals are eager to show. Besides cooking breakfast, visitors can enjoy dipping their toes in several…
- Mae Khachan Hot Spring - Among the rare natural hot springs in northern Thailand, Mae Kachan Hot Spring (also known as Mae Ka Chan) reaches impressive temperatures of 194˚F (90˚C), hot enough to boil an egg in just a few minutes, a demonstration locals are eager to show. Besides cooking breakfast, visitors can enjoy dipping their toes in several pools. Mae Kachan Hot Spring is limited to foot soaking only; full-body immersion is not allowed.
- Wat Rong Khun - Wat Rong Khun, commonly referred to by foreigners as the White Temple, is a privately owned art exhibit designed in the style of a Buddhist temple located in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is owned by Chalermchai Kositpipat, who designed, built, and opened it to the public in 1997.
- Baan Dam Museum - Known to foreigners as the Black House Museum, Baan Dam Museum is a blend of traditional northern Thai buildings with unique and modern architecture, crafted by Thawan Duchanee.
- Wat Rong Seur Ten (Blue Temple) - A grand, contemporary Buddhist temple noted for its striking blue color and intricate carvings.
- Golden Triangle - Situated in the far north of the province, the Golden Triangle is one of Chiang Rai’s most renowned attractions. Once infamous for the opium trade, the Golden Triangle marks the convergence of the borders of three countries: Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar (Burma). Visitors can opt for a boat trip along the waterways that line the borders.
- Longneck Karen Village - An optional visit to the Karen Long-neck tribe is available (admission fee 300 THB per person). This tribal village is known for its women who wear stacked brass rings on their necks and sell handmade crafts. For those not visiting the Karen Long-neck Village, the tour guide will request you to wait for approximately 1 hour while others visit. You can spend this time exploring the nearby market.
What's Included
- Round-trip transportation by air-conditioned car/minivan from Chiang Mai’s Old Town and Nimman area.
- Tour guide, life Insurance
- Lunch, drinking water & seasonal fruits
- Admission fee
- Round-trip transportation by air-conditioned car/minivan from Chiang Mai’s Old Town and Nimman area.
- Tour guide, life Insurance
- Lunch, drinking water & seasonal fruits
- Admission fee
What's Not Included
- Extra charge for visit longneck village or boat trip 300 THB/Person/Activity
- Extra charge for visit longneck village or boat trip 300 THB/Person/Activity
Additional Information
Experience the highlights of Chiang Rai in just one day, featuring Wat Rong Khun (White Temple), Baan Dam Museum (Black House), Wat Rong Suea Ten (Blue Temple), the Golden Triangle, and Mae Kachan Hot Spring. Start your journey by relaxing your feet at Mae Kachan Hot Spring, setting a soothing tone for the day. Explore Chiang Rai, Thailand’s…
Experience the highlights of Chiang Rai in just one day, featuring Wat Rong Khun (White Temple), Baan Dam Museum (Black House), Wat Rong Suea Ten (Blue Temple), the Golden Triangle, and Mae Kachan Hot Spring. Start your journey by relaxing your feet at Mae Kachan Hot Spring, setting a soothing tone for the day. Explore Chiang Rai, Thailand’s northernmost province, which shares borders with Myanmar and Laos at the renowned Golden Triangle. This area is abundant in art, culture, and natural beauty, showcasing the magnificent White Temple, Longneck tribes, and the Mekong River. Visit the Golden Triangle, where Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos converge along the Mekong River, a historic site once central to the US war on drugs. Dive into the region’s captivating history and stunning landscapes. With convenient round-trip hotel transfers, enjoy a smooth and memorable exploration of Chiang Rai’s top attractions.
- Please note that Chiang Rai is far away from Chiang Mai, so this trip involves a long drive in the minivan
- This is a joint tour, the operator will be picking up each guest in order, so please kindly wait patiently at your hotel. If waiting for too long, please contact the operator immediately
- On the rare occasion that we should be required to cancel a tour, we will inform you in advance and offer a different tour date, an alternative tour or provide a full refund
- Child ticket age between 3-6 years
- Participants can choose to end the program in Chiang Rai subject to upon prior request. Luggage will be charged at 500 THB per piece, with a size limit of 20 inches.
- For Wat Rong Khun, a respectful dress code is required. Flip-flops, tank tops, and short pants are not allowed. Appropriate attire includes sneakers, T-shirts, and long trousers like jeans.
- In any case, if your booking isn’t matched with reality when you show upfront (such as child’s age, child’s height, the number of people and etc), you are responsible to pay the additional charge upfront for the tour
- For those who do not visit Karen Long-neck Village, the tour guide will ask you to wait for others around 1 hour. You can spend your time at the near by market.
- The tour will return you to your hotel between approximately 09:00 PM and 09:30 PM, depending on your hotel location and traffic conditions.
- Mae Kachan Hot Spring allows foot soaking only; full-body entry is not permitted.
Location
Hotel M Chiang Mai
Ratchadamnoen Rd
• Or, you can also get picked up from your hotel in Chiang Mai's Old Town and Nimman area.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.8
(29 Ratings)
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401htark
Nov 28, 2024
Wonderful and excellent - I took so many photos. My tour give good service for us. I met some friends who are really nice and familier. I was happy and enjoy my journey.
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Christian
Oct 4, 2024
Good experience and good attention from the Guide. Recommended - Very good Guide attention and good driver driving. It is a long tour but the Guide explains part of the culture, language and history of the places to visit. That makes the journey very light. They are very friendly and English is quite understandable. The food included is traditional and very good tasting.
He considers that the visit to the Villa de las Karen will cost THB 300 per person. You will also have to pay an additional fee for boarding the Golden Triangle Boat of approximately another 250 THB/person.
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Besttraveller145
Sep 1, 2023
Well organized sightseeing tour - Well organized excursion, with the right amount of time dedicated to each attraction, good food.
Very nice guide, somewhat reckless driver!!
Recommended for those who want to tour around Chiang Rai in one day.
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Jessmaritza_p
Aug 28, 2023
Wonderful Temples - The ideal is clothes the combination the colours the Temple … are photos for Instagram … beautiful.
Let’s go with breakfast … 😉
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Shwetald
Nov 27, 2024
Overall so so experience - They did deliver taking us to places as advertised with plenty of photo opportunities but the ride was not comfortable, they crammed too many seats in the van. The tour guide was pathetic, poor communication could not understand him at all. Lunch was garbage. I would not have minded paying more for better service, more comfortable ride and better guide. Overall it still helped me get Chiang Rai golden triangle checked off my bucket list .I would not recommend this vendor
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Fahmida_b
Nov 28, 2023
The fairy land. - The White Temple made me realise, it was a must experience at least once in a lifetime.
Everything was perfectly designed. The workmanship is ingenious. From Architectural point of view, I would say the White Temple can be referred to as 20th Century Taj Mahal.
The food was not adequate. In Chiang Rai I am sure there are better quality food. I have some feedback for the organisers. The 1st driver was very reckless and tje passengers did not feel safe. The guide talks non-stop giving the passengers migraine. She talks as if she is teaching the elementary school students. She also was talking bad things about people from the South of Thailand. If she is representing her country as a tourist guide she should not badmouth her own countrymen. She was also being very rude when she talked about refugees from Myanmar. No one wants to become a refugees unless they have no other option.
Finally, the tourists who opt in to visit the long neck village said it felt like a human zoo. So please my suggestion would be to respect these refugees from Myanmar and stop using them as part of the visit.
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Erez_a
Nov 14, 2023
Embrace yourself for a long day - Prepare yourself for a long ride in a van. We didn’t realize most of the day would be spent in the car (the way back was 4h).
The temples are gorgeous, the black house museum is very special, the long neck tribe visit is somehow not authentic as much as you expect and the golden triangle summed up with a very short uneventful boat ride. If I had to recommend doing any of the above it would have been if you’re already based in Chiang Rai. Anyway, an experience.
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Nora_m
Oct 2, 2023
Just look for another one - Didnt like it. The van was absolutely uncomfortable, my seat was wet for longer than 2 hours and they didnt care. It is a long tour even if you book less stuff, you will need to wait to everyone..
So better to get full pack otherwise you are losing your time as they dont organise it properly. I just went to differents tours and this one it is the worse quite clear.
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Q6946ewlaurag
Aug 29, 2023
Worth it, but lower your expectations - The Golden Triangle portion of this tour was terrible. The guide intensely pressured our group into paying 100bht extra per person to land in Laos and spend 30 minutes in a “local market” and then spent the majority of our boat ride not talking about the history of the Golden Triangle but instead telling us how lucky we were to go on this (paid for) tour and about the discount alcohol, cigarettes, and knock off designer goods available at the “local market” in Laos. And continued this sales pitch in the pouring rain as we struggled to dock. This “local market” was a not yet completed outlet mall.
Less problematic but still odd or unfortunate aspects of this tour: our guide’s level of English was barely functional (I ended up going on Wikipedia for site descriptions), dinner was not only not included even though we arrived home at 10pm but consisted of a 15 minute break at a 7/11, the tour had 12 people when max 10 people had been advertised.
The Black House Museum has cool architecture but is pretty much just a bunch of taxidermied animals and their skins inside-not interesting.
Besides the above, our guide was kind, polite, and kept our group on schedule. The hot springs, white temple, and blue temple were amazing, and it was a gorgeous drive. The hill tribe village market was nice. The boat ride was beautiful and seeing Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand simultaneously was incredible. The driver was good and the vehicle was comfortable.
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Teen367
Nov 18, 2024
Terrible Communication and Host Injured My Hand - This was one of the worst and most unprofessional trips i was a part of personally. For the others it was probably okay and good enough but how i was personally treated was outrageous.
I was told to be at the meetup location at 8:00am by Oh-Hoo and have the email as proof but got a call at 7:15 by the driver asking where i was and threatening to leave me if i wasn’t there soon even though which is not my fault. It wasn’t until after multiple extreme negotiations back and forth to convince and beg them not to leave us behind on logistics that weren’t our fault due to terrible communication.
To make matters worst, the host slammed the van door on my fingers at one of the stops and injured my hand for the rest of my trip.
Like i prefaced, i doubt anyone else had the same experience because accidents happen but that was beyond stressful to deal with the communication failure and very painful to deal with the door being slammed shut on my hand
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