Doi Inthanon National Park
Doi Inthanon National Park is home to Thailand's highest peak, offering cool mountain trails, waterfalls, and hilltop pagodas with sweeping views.
Doi Inthanon National Park
Doi Inthanon rises to 2,565 metres, the highest point in Thailand, about sixty kilometres south-west of Chiang Mai. The national park around it covers the upper slopes, and the change with altitude is the reason to go: dry forest at the bottom, evergreen higher up, and genuine cloud forest near the top, mossy and dripping, which is unusual anywhere in the country.
A short boardwalk near the summit, the Ang Ka trail, loops through that mossy forest over a sphagnum bog. Below it stand the two chedis built for the king and queen, set on the ridge with terraced gardens and a long view when the cloud lifts. The park also holds several substantial waterfalls, Wachirathan and Mae Ya among them, and Karen and Hmong villages farming terraces on the lower slopes.
It is cold at the top by Thai standards - close to freezing on winter nights - and the summit is often in cloud even when Chiang Mai is clear.
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