Chiang Mai attractions on the map

The royal stupa will lead into a dispute over two crowns and the fate of a shrine that confirmed the right to rule.

A personal donation will turn an unreliable seasonal crossing into a permanent connection between two trading riverbanks.

The layout of the houses will explain how one family could trade by the road, live inside, and receive cargo from the yard at the same time.

Here you will learn why the craft quarter began beyond the moat and bears the name of another place.

This water boundary reveals the scale of a city that at first had no one to restore it, and then had to be defended.

A copy of a lost crossing shows how a transportation project from the nineties found an unexpected life in film.

Here, the road's story begins with volunteer construction and the price its organizer would pay for his independence.

The final stop will show how the automobile road took pilgrims, cargo, and the monks' daily descents away from the old route.

The final crossing will show why the railroad required the distinctive steel spans to be replaced with a wide concrete bridge.

Here you will see how learning a craft ceased to depend on being born into the right family.

This stop will show how merchants turned personal devotion into a way to support the whole lane.

Here it will become clear why the familiar symbol of the old city is also a modern reconstruction.

Here, the city's founding will appear as the result of negotiations between rulers rather than the joint feat of three builders.

Here, river trade appears as a chain of transformations, from an elephant yard to a flower market.

Here begins the story of a commercial district that the princely family turned into a source of shared income.

The former abbot's house will connect the history of a vanished riverside quarter with the objects its residents preserved.

The finale will broaden the story of the neighborhood: its residents passed down not only craft techniques from hand to hand.

This stop shows how a princely building could change its purpose and continue its life in a monastery.

The final shrine will conclude the route with the story of a gift that proved more important than a lost struggle for the throne.

Here, masters of different generations will come together on a single project that lasted twelve years.

Here it will become clear how residents turned three temple fairs into a single street market.

This stop will show how a family technique adapted to the disappearance of its usual commissions.

Nearest audio-route stop: The White Elephant and the Outer Terrace — 10 m in a straight line, route Doi Suthep: Roads to the Shrine

Nearest audio-route stop: Wat Phra Singh — 110 m in a straight line, route Old Chiang Mai: How the Lan Na Capital Was Assembled

Nearest audio-route stop: Chiang Mai Gate — 120 m in a straight line, route Wua Lai: Chiang Mai’s Silver Quarter