Location: Chiang Rai
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Top 10 Hidden Gems Things to do in Chiang Rai, Chiang Rai Province
Located about five hours from Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai is a community not to be missed. The area offers a variety of cooking classes, beautiful views, markets, resorts and restaurants. In addition, visitors can get a feel for true northern Thai culture during their visit.
Restaurants in Chiang Rai
1. Chiang Rai Bicycle Tour
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5.0 based on 456 reviews
We operate half day - five days cycling tours around Chiang Rai and Golden Triangle area. Family with young kids also welcome.
2. Suwannee Thai Cooking Class
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5.0 based on 935 reviews
Thai cooking individual class with the market tour, organic ingredients, support local farmers and sellers. Food Tasting & Cultural walking tour. All ages are welcome.
Reviewed By Trail10198271605 - Hong Kong, China
Nan was very nice girl, she brought us to market and introduce all the ingredients, we learnt excellent cooking skills from her. Environment was good, focus on decoration, let us take many good pictures
3. Lanna Trek
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5.0 based on 287 reviews
Founded since 2008, Lanna Trek is a tour agency based in Chiang Rai, Thailand that organize tours to all areas in Chiang Rai province and neighbor provinces ; Chiang Mai, Lam Pang, Nan, Mae Hong Sorn etc. We organise several kind of tours; trekking, bicycling, and sightseeing. Among the local attractions are visits to the Wat Rong Khun temple,Black house, Huay Pla Kang temple, Karen Long Neck, Mae Salong, Golden Triangle, Mae Kok National Park, Water falls,tea plantations and hill-tribe villages. We can organize homestays with hilltribe families in Chiang Rai and guide you to beautiful hikes along Chiang Rai mountains.
4. Coconut Tours
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5.0 based on 220 reviews
WE ARE FROM LOCAL PEOPLE "Wellcome to chiang rai" the best way when you come to chiang rai thailand "come to visit us" coconuts tours will offer you to visit most popular place. Beautiful nature amazing mountain nice people and you will unforgetable
5. Elephant Steps Chiang Rai
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5.0 based on 186 reviews
Walking with elephant in the jungle.. Go with them to their nature home, have lunch in the forest with bamboo cooking . Follow us , love, respect and care in a different way to their past lives with no riding , by accompanying them in their naturel environnment you contribute has their confort.
6. Cook Thai Yourself
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5.0 based on 340 reviews
A fun way to cook and experience Thai food by cooking it yourself. You buy it - You cook it - You eat it - We Show You How First we take you to a local market where you buy the ingredients you need. We Show You How. Then we take you to our house in the country where you prepare and cook your choice of Thai dishes. We Show You How. Finally you sit and enjoy the dishes you have cooked and relax Thai style. We Show You How.
7. Elephant Valley Thailand
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5.0 based on 613 reviews
Elephant Valley Thailand was Chiang Rai's elephant sanctuary. Established in 2016 it closed in May 2020 due to Covid19 crisis.
Reviewed By S7389LAbrandonw - Faringdon, United Kingdom
Thank you to JJ, Bim & Phon (sorry if spelt wrong) for having us at Elephant Valley, it was such an amazing experience and definitely the highlight of our trip to Asia! We did the full day tour/volunteering experience with overnight stay at the guest house which I would 100% recommend for anyone considering seeing elephants in Thailand! This is a true "sanctuary", totally hands off to tourists so you get to learn about and see first hand how these beautiful animals interact in their natural habitat which is incredible. Not only that but you get to help the keepers and staff prepare the elephants food, clean up their poo (more fun than it sounds) and genuinely help to keep the sanctuary a great place for the elephant to live . Thanks again Elephant Valley Thailand!
8. Parntrek
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5.0 based on 449 reviews
Parntrek : Our service about tour in Chiangrai . We have Sightseeing Join tour Privet Sightseeing tour and trekking in Chiangrai .
9. Akha Kitchen
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5.0 based on 348 reviews
Hello, My name is Jaruwan and my friends call me Jaru. I am a Professional Chef and have live here, in Chiang Rai, my entire life. Akha Kitchen is a half day, Thai Cooking Class specializing in Thai & Akha cuisine. Here at Akha Kitchen, our entire staff are from the "Akha" Hill-Tribe, of Northern Thailand. Our heritage, as Thai/Akha persons, has given us unique techniques in Thai & Akha cooking. We would love to share with you how to cook authentic, Thai and Akha cuisine in your own home. We also offer vegetarian, & Vegan alternatives to our dishes. Here at Akha Kitchen, we are all fluent at speaking English, Thai and Akha. The Class includes: Market tour, Coffee and snacks at market ...5 course Cooking Class ... All drinks...all transportation to and from YOUR location in Chiang Rai, & of course Lots of fun and laughs . This class will last 4-5 Hours & will give you, Cultural & Culinary experiences that will last a lifetime! Please come and eat with us... It's the Akha thing to do!
Reviewed By CharlieS2187
Me and my girlfriend took the half-day cooking class, which was going something like this: - We were picked up at our Hostel and met the other cooking classmates. We then directly decided on what the menu should look like, which was an easy process as we were deciding one dish each more or less in the subgroups (we were a total of 5 people and 3 subgroups). Therefore, decide on what you would like to cook on before hand and make sure that at least one of your desired dishes will be made. - Then we went directly to the market to buy the groceries for the dishes, but as well was offered to taste some different appetizers at the market stalls like sticky rice, rice pancake, coffee/tea and sausage. Jaruwan were very easy to talk to and could answer any question we had regarding what the different things at the market were. - After having bought all the ingredients, we went to the Cooking School to begin the cooking class, but were first given a delightful drink made from a flower we saw on the market and ate some awesome pineapple. - Then we got introduced to the house and all the different places to cook and eat the food. So first we made the curry paste and then started doing the different dishes. Once we were finished we ate it and so it went past. - What struck us was how smoothly the prepared each room for us to have an as delightful cooking class as we could ever imagined to have. - The food became amazing and was as reviewers previously mentioned, very easy to make which was fascinating and a good leason to bring home with you: If you know what makes the basics of Thai Food then it is easy. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for this experience and for the lessons we learnt, now we are eager to get home to wow our friends with our new thai cooking skills! Thank you everyone at Akha Kitchen for a lovely day!
10. Lanna Cultural Tours
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5.0 based on 163 reviews
Lanna Cultural Tours organise various kind of tours : Trekking, Bicycling, Sightseeing, Lanna cooking style - home stay, camping, temple stay and Vipassana meditation, farming and upon your interest, etc. Our main office located 54 km away from Chiang Rai city, in a remote Lanna village which surrounding by rice fields and mountainous plantations. Our tour services cover all the northern provinces ; Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Mae Hong Sorn, Lampang, Phrae, Nan and all over Thailand. Apart from our shown programs, please let us know what you like to see and do in our northern provinces then we could organise upon your interest.
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