Old City temples
3.5 km · ~half day · Old City · 8 stops
- Thapae Gate
- Three Kings Monument
- Wat Chedi Luang
- Wat Phan Tao
- Wat Phra Singh
- Lunch at SP Chicken
- Nong Buak Haad Park
- Wat Chiang Man
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This interactive map of Chiang Mai (Thailand) brings together 119 hand-picked places: 34 attractions, 39 restaurants, 24 cafés and 22 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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3.5 km · ~half day · Old City · 8 stops
2.8 km · ~half day · Nimmanhaemin · 7 stops
~full day · Suthep · 7 stops
3 km · ~half day · Wat Ket · 7 stops
3.2 km · ~half day · Wua Lai · 7 stops
วัดพระธาตุดอยสุเทพ · Doi Suthep
Gold-clad mountain temple: 306 naga steps and the whole valley below you.
Tip: Come before 8 AM — no crowds and the valley still wrapped in mist.
🚇 Songthaew rojo desde Chang Phueak Gate — 40 min
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Show on mapวัดเจดีย์หลวง · Old City
The Old City's giant: a 1441 chedi left half-broken by an earthquake, still towering.
Tip: Stay for the afternoon Monk Chat — free English conversation with novices.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 10 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดพระสิงห์ · Old City
The city's most revered temple and the finest Lanna viharn you'll walk into.
Tip: The rear Viharn Lai Kham holds the 19th-c murals — don't stop at the main hall.
🚇 Suan Dok Gate — 7 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดอุโมงค์ · Suthep
A 1300s forest temple with brick meditation tunnels and a turtle lake. Pure calm.
Tip: Walk the tunnels barefoot, then keep going to the rear chedi — almost nobody does.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 12 min
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Show on mapวัดศรีสุพรรณ · Wua Lai
The Silver Temple — an entire ordination hall hand-beaten in silver and aluminium.
Tip: Come back after dark — lit up, the silver turns electric blue.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 8 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดพันเตา · Old City
Dark teak throughout, rebuilt from the old royal palace panels. Small and perfect.
Tip: At Yi Peng they fill the pond with candles — the Chiang Mai shot of November.
🚇 Al lado de Wat Chedi Luang — 1 min
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Show on mapวัดเชียงมั่น · Old City
The city's oldest temple (1296), its chedi carried by fifteen stone elephants.
Tip: It guards two tiny, hugely sacred Buddhas — only shown on certain days.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดโลกโมฬี · Chang Phueak
Massive brick chedi and a commanding teak viharn, just outside the northern moat.
Tip: One of the few temples where you're often alone. Golden hour is the moment.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 5 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดสวนดอก · Suthep
A field of whitewashed royal chedis with Doi Suthep behind. The cleanest skyline here.
Tip: Arrive 30 min before sunset — the white turns pink and the mountain cuts in.
🚇 Suan Dok Gate — 15 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดผาลาด · Doi Suthep
The jungle temple with its own waterfall — Suthep's worst-kept secret, and worth it.
Tip: Hike the Monk's Trail up — 45 minutes, marked with orange monk-robe strips.
🚇 Monk's Trail desde Huay Kaew — 45 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดเจ็ดยอด · Chang Phueak
Seven stucco spires copied from Bodh Gaya — there is nothing else like it in Thailand.
Tip: Look closely at the wall devas — every single face is a different portrait.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 8 min
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Show on mapวัดกู่เต้า · Chang Phueak
Its chedi is a stack of five spheres — a shape you will not find anywhere else.
Tip: Tucked behind the stadium — few tourists and the monks love to talk.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 12 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดแสนฝาง · Tha Phae
You enter through a corridor of golden nagas into a Burmese-style courtyard.
Tip: The naga alley off Tha Phae Road is the best shot of the whole temple.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดเกตการาม · Wat Ket
Temple of the old traders' quarter, with a magpie museum of objects donated by locals.
Tip: Afterwards walk Charoenrat Road — 1900s teak houses turned into cafes.
🚇 Cruzá el Ping por Nawarat Bridge — 10 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดเจ็ดลิน · Old City
A lotus pond, bamboo and total silence two blocks from the tourist crush.
Tip: The wooden deck over the pond is the best place in the Old City to slow down.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดป่าเป้า · Old City
A 1483 Shan temple, flaking stucco and an atmosphere nobody has restored away.
Tip: The interior murals are half faded, which is exactly what makes them good.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 8 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดเชียงยืน · Chang Phueak
Locals come here to ask for good health before anything important happens.
Tip: Right by the north gate — pair it with the Chang Phueak night market.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 3 min a pie
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Show on mapวัดพระธาตุดอยคำ · Mae Hia
The 17-metre Buddha watching over the valley — with none of Doi Suthep's queue.
Tip: Locals bring jasmine garlands to make a wish — if it lands, you must come back.
🚇 Grab desde Old City — 25 min
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Show on mapประตูท่าแพ · Old City
The brick gate where everything starts — ground zero of the Old City, pigeons included.
Tip: Every songthaew meets here — always agree the fare before you get in.
🚇 Punto de referencia central de la Old City
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Show on mapประตูเชียงใหม่ · Old City
The south gate and its food market — where Chiang Mai actually eats dinner.
Tip: After dark it fills with khao kha moo and roti stalls. Bring small notes.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 15 min a pie
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Show on mapประตูช้างเผือก · Old City
The north gate — the white elephant one — and the doorway to the best street food.
Tip: Cross the moat — stalls open at sundown and pack up around 1 AM.
🚇 Three Kings Monument — 8 min a pie
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Show on mapประตูสวนดอก · Old City
The quietest of the four gates, with a strip of open-air bar carts alongside.
Tip: The lawn beside it is where locals drink cheap beer sitting on the grass.
🚇 Wat Phra Singh — 7 min a pie
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Show on mapอนุสาวรีย์สามกษัตริย์ · Old City
The three kings who founded Chiang Mai in 1296, at the exact geographic centre.
Tip: The plaza hosts every festival — if something is happening in town, it's here.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 12 min a pie
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Show on mapหออินทขีล · Old City
The pillar that holds the city's luck. Women may not enter the inner shrine.
Tip: In May there are six days of flower offerings — the year's most local festival.
🚇 Dentro de Wat Chedi Luang — 1 min
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Show on mapสวนบวกหาด · Old City
The Old City's green lung — lawns, a duck lake and the local picnic spot.
Tip: Grab food at the Chiang Mai Gate market and bring it here at sunset.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapสวนสัตว์เชียงใหม่ · Huay Kaew
Huge and built into the hillside below Doi Suthep. The easiest plan with kids.
Tip: It is all uphill — pay for the internal tram or you will finish wrecked.
🚇 Songthaew rojo desde Nimman — 10 min
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Show on mapพระตำหนักภูพิงคราชนิเวศน์ · Doi Suthep
The royal mountain residence and its rose gardens at 1,400 m. Cool year-round.
Tip: It closes when the royal family is in residence — check before you drive up.
🚇 Songthaew desde Doi Suthep — 15 min más arriba
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Show on mapคลองแม่ข่า · Old City
The canal that was a sewer and is now the most photographed lantern-lit walk in town.
Tip: Go after 6:30 PM — the lights come on and the food carts appear.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 10 min a pie
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Show on mapพิพิธภัณฑ์แห่งชาติ เชียงใหม่ · Chang Phueak
A thousand years of the Lanna kingdom, explained well and air-conditioned.
Tip: Pair it with Wat Jed Yod — they are five minutes apart on foot.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 10 min
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Show on mapเวียงกุมกาม · Saraphi
The lost city the Ping river buried in the 1500s. You tour it by pony cart.
Tip: The horse-cart tour covers the scattered ruins — walking it is not realistic.
🚇 Grab desde Old City — 20 min
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Show on mapบันไดนาค · Doi Suthep
306 steps flanked by two mosaic serpents. The climb is half the point.
Tip: There is a funicular if you'd rather not climb — but the stairs hold the shots.
🚇 Base del Wat Phra That Doi Suthep
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Show on mapOld City
The original ethical sanctuary — rescued elephants, no riding, no shows. Office in town.
Tip: Book weeks ahead — the full-day visit always sells out.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 5 min a pie (oficina)
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Show on mapสะพานระแกง · Mae Kha
The bridge TikTok renamed Chiang Mai's Otaru — lights, canal and a queue for the photo.
Tip: Go on a weekday — at weekends the queue for the shot is genuinely long.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 12 min a pie
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Show on mapสวนรุกขชาติห้วยแก้ว · Huay Kaew
Free urban forest at the foot of the mountain, with a small waterfall and real shade.
Tip: It's the natural stop before or after Doi Suthep — and there is no entrance fee.
🚇 Songthaew por Huay Kaew Rd — 8 min desde Nimman
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
A tasting menu from a chef who ferments everything himself. The north's hardest table.
Tip: Book weeks out — the menu changes with whatever came in that morning.
🚇 Nimman Soi 7 — 3 min a pie desde Maya
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Show on mapHang Dong
Northern fine dining plated like a forest floor. Worth the Grab ride out.
Tip: Take the non-alcoholic pairing — herb infusions from their own garden.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 25 min
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Show on mapTha Phae
High-end Lanna cooking inside a restored 1888 merchant house. Dinner as theatre.
Tip: Order the kaeng hang lay — it's the family's original 130-year-old recipe.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 5 min a pie
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Show on mapเฮือนเพ็ญ · Old City
The northern classic: canteen by day, antique-filled dining room by night.
Tip: By day you eat out front — half the price of the back dining room at night.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 5 min a pie
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Show on mapเฮือนม่วนใจ๋ · Santitham
Northern Thai with zero concessions to tourist palates. Come for the nam prik ong.
Tip: Order the nam prik set with raw vegetables — the best entry to the real north.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 6 min
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Show on mapข้าวซอยคุณยาย · Old City
The cult khao soi: opens at noon, closes when it runs out, shut on Sundays.
Tip: Get there before 1 PM or you miss out — it sells out most days.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 5 min a pie
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Show on mapข้าวซอยนิมมาน · Nimmanhaemin
Textbook khao soi, air-conditioned, English menu. The easiest way in.
Tip: Ask for the pork rib version instead of chicken — that's the local order.
🚇 Nimman Soi 7 — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapข้าวซอยลำดวน · Fa Ham
Serving the same khao soi since the 1940s, right by the Ping. No frills whatsoever.
Tip: Open 10 AM to 4 PM only. The pickled mustard greens on the table are mandatory.
🚇 Grab desde Tha Phae Gate — 12 min
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Show on mapข้าวซอยอิสลาม · Chang Khlan
Halal khao soi in the Muslim quarter, plus goat curry and roti off the griddle.
Tip: Add the khao mok gai — northern Thailand's take on biryani.
🚇 Night Bazaar — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapข้าวซอยลุงประกิต · Old City
A neighbourhood stall MICHELIN found. Locals queue at lunch and they are right.
Tip: It sits in a market, not a shopfront — look for the awning and the big pot.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 8 min a pie
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Show on mapตลาดช้างเผือก · Chang Phueak
The street food Anthony Bourdain made famous — khao kha moo until the small hours.
Tip: Find the lady in the cowboy hat — hers is the pork leg you came for.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — cruzá el foso
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Show on mapตลาดประตูเชียงใหม่ · Old City
A 24-hour food market: local curries by morning, grills and roti by night.
Tip: At 6 AM the monks do their shopping here — it's an entirely different market.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 1 min a pie
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Show on mapไก่ย่าง เอสพี · Old City
Wood-fired rotisserie chicken in a six-table shop. It's all they do, hence how good it is.
Tip: Half a chicken plus som tam and sticky rice — the northern combination.
🚇 Wat Phra Singh — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapไก่ย่างเชิงดอย · Nimmanhaemin
Charcoal chicken with a tamarind sauce Nimman locals will defend to the death.
Tip: Tiny and no reservations — arrive at 11:30 AM or queue outside for 40 minutes.
🚇 Nimman Soi 5 — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapโอ้กะจู๋ · Nong Hoi
The organic farm that became a national phenomenon. Salads the size of your head.
Tip: Portions are genuinely huge — one salad feeds two people comfortably.
🚇 Grab desde Old City — 12 min
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Show on mapร้านอาหารมีนา · San Kamphaeng Rd
Naturally coloured rice served among paddy fields. The most photographed plate in town.
Tip: Order the butterfly pea rice — the blue is natural and turns pink with lime.
🚇 Grab desde Tha Phae Gate — 15 min
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Show on mapSuthep
A Texas smokehouse in Thailand: 14-hour brisket and ribs that fall off the bone.
Tip: Open only a few days a week and sell out — check their Instagram first.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 10 min
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Show on mapPa Tan
Soulful northern cooking from family recipes, in a neighbourhood with no tourists.
Tip: It's small and family-run — call ahead if you're more than four.
🚇 Grab desde Chang Phueak Gate — 7 min
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Show on mapHang Dong
Own farm, modern northern cooking and kids planting rice while you eat.
Tip: They run farm activities for kids — the best family lunch outside the city.
🚇 Grab desde Old City — 20 min
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Show on mapOld City
Eating surrounded by furniture that's for sale, in a riot-of-colour colonial house.
Tip: It's also a homeware store — you can buy the chair you ate in.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 8 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
Contemporary Thai in an 1889 mansion, with a garden and a tapas bar out front.
Tip: The front tapas bar is cheaper and has the best terrace in the block.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapร้านอาหาร อรุณไร · Old City
Open since 1957, home of the hang lay curry most of the others copied.
Tip: Don't come for the room — you come for the hang lay and nam prik num.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 3 min a pie
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Show on mapWat Ket
Thirty years on the Ping with live bands every night. A genuine local institution.
Tip: Book a table on the water deck — inside is not the same thing at all.
🚇 Nawarat Bridge — 3 min a pie
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Show on mapเดอะกู้ดวิว · Wat Ket
The Riverside's neighbour and eternal rival: bigger, louder, just as good.
Tip: The band starts at 8:30 PM — before that the terrace is empty and calm.
🚇 Nawarat Bridge — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapWat Ket
Burmese and northern curries in a hidden garden. The hang lay here is the benchmark.
Tip: Get the curry sampler — four curries for roughly the price of two.
🚇 Wat Ket Karam — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
Home-style Burmese cooking and a secondhand bookshop in the same room. Odd and great.
Tip: Burmese milk tea and the fermented tea leaf salad are the required order.
🚇 Nimman Soi 17 — 5 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
Twenty years of Burmese curry in a vine-covered courtyard. Cheap and consistent.
Tip: The back courtyard beats the front room by a mile — ask to sit there.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 7 min a pie
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
The burger that won Nimman — dry-aged beef and brioche baked in house.
Tip: It's tiny — six stools, that's it. Go early or order to take away.
🚇 Nimman Soi 17 — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
Big burgers, craft beer and rock at an honest volume. The no-thinking plan.
Tip: They pour northern Thai craft beers — ask for the Chiang Mai brew.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 5 min a pie
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
Proper Italian high above Nimman, with the best sunset view of Doi Suthep in town.
Tip: Head to the Rise Bar rooftop 45 minutes before sunset to get a table.
🚇 Nimman Soi 9 — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapเทสฟรอมเฮเว่น · Old City
Twenty years of Thai vegetarian — vegan versions of every single classic dish.
Tip: The vegan khao soi here is the best in the city, no exaggeration.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapChang Moi
Easygoing vegan with Thai plates and jackfruit burgers. Neighbourhood prices.
Tip: The jackfruit pad thai fools committed carnivores. Try it.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
Modern vegan with a back garden, decent coffee and a menu that keeps moving.
Tip: The back garden is genuinely quiet — a good spot to work for an hour.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 7 min a pie
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Show on mapWat Suan Dok
Organic food from their permaculture farm, served in the Wat Suan Dok courtyard.
Tip: Eating with a view of the white chedis costs nothing extra. Use it.
🚇 Dentro de Wat Suan Dok — 1 min
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
Build-your-own salads for Nimman's standing army of digital nomads.
Tip: Open late with solid wifi — the nomad refuge at 9 PM.
🚇 Nimman Soi 13 — 3 min a pie
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Show on mapเฮือนหลวงพระบาง · Old City
Lao cooking from Luang Prabang — the north's lesser-known, herbier cousin.
Tip: Order the or lam — the Lao stew you almost never find outside Laos.
🚇 Wat Phra Singh — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapก๋วยเตี๋ยวอัญชัน · Santitham
Hand-made noodles dyed blue with butterfly pea flower. As pretty as it sounds.
Tip: Squeeze the lime over the noodles — the blue turns violet instantly.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 5 min
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Show on mapFa Ham
French fine dining on the banks of the Ping, in a teak house. The anniversary plan.
Tip: Request a riverside table when booking — there are few and they're the ones.
🚇 Grab desde Tha Phae Gate — 12 min
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Show on mapตลาดต้นลำไย · Warorot
The market that never sleeps — flowers by night, noodle breakfast at 4 AM.
Tip: At midnight the flower trucks arrive from the north — that's the moment.
🚇 Warorot Market — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
World-championship latte art. The most decorated coffee bar in Thailand, full stop.
Tip: Order the Satan Latte — four shots and the hardest pour on the menu.
🚇 Nimman Soi 3 — 3 min a pie
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
The lab of a world latte art champion. This is where the coffee gets experimented on.
Tip: Sit at the bar and let the barista choose — it always lands better.
🚇 Nimman Soi 5 — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
Ten square metres of brutalist design and signature coffee. An absolute cult.
Tip: Order a nitro signature — those are the coffee cocktails that made their name.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapOne Nimman
Graph's flagship inside One Nimman — specialty coffee and serious architecture.
Tip: You're already in One Nimman — do the design shops in the same trip.
🚇 One Nimman — planta baja
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Show on mapกาแฟอาข่าอามา · Old City
An Akha hill-tribe social enterprise — the founder's own family grows the beans.
Tip: Ask for the Mae Suay single origin pour-over — that's the family farm.
🚇 Wat Phra Singh — 3 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
Akha Ama's mother house in a quiet residential block. Fewer tourists, same beans.
Tip: They run the cupping workshops here — ask for the schedule if that's your thing.
🚇 Chang Phueak Gate — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapSantitham
The neighbourhood branch — full of locals, no queue, the same Akha beans.
Tip: The quietest of the three — the one to pick if you want to sit and work.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 5 min
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
An own-farm organic project staffed by baristas who compete nationally.
Tip: Ask them to walk you through the month's lot — they genuinely enjoy it.
🚇 Nimman Soi 11 — 1 min a pie
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Show on mapWat Ket
A tiny Japanese-Thai bakery with a La Marzocco. Everything sells out before noon.
Tip: Thursday to Sunday only, and the bread is gone by 11 AM. Get there early.
🚇 Wat Ket Karam — 6 min a pie
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Show on mapPa Tan
Bare concrete, river-facing glass and the most photographed coffee in the north.
Tip: The window tables go by 9 AM — arrive earlier if the photo matters.
🚇 Grab desde Old City — 10 min
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Show on mapSuthep
Baristro's zen garden version — bamboo, water, silence. A different planet.
Tip: It sits beside Wat Umong — combine them in the same morning run.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 10 min
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
An all-white cafe-hotel designed for the phone camera. And it works.
Tip: The white lobby staircase is the shot — before 10 AM you get it to yourself.
🚇 Nimman Soi 9 — 1 min a pie
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Show on mapWat Ket
The railway branch, with old carriages and a platform. Pure cinema.
Tip: If you're taking the night train to Bangkok, it's the best waiting room going.
🚇 Chiang Mai Railway Station — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
A small, serious roastery with no decoration and the cleanest espresso in the Old City.
Tip: Buy beans to take home — they roast on site and grind to your method.
🚇 Three Kings Monument — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
An industrial warehouse with the roaster on show and furniture they built themselves.
Tip: One of the few with big tables — useful in a group or for a long work session.
🚇 Maya Lifestyle — 4 min a pie
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Show on mapSuthep
Black and white, total minimalism, and the smartest coffee near the university.
Tip: It's in the CMU zone — cheap, full of students and the wifi is very fast.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 6 min
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
A micro-cafe obsessed with direct farmer relationships. An eight-seat bar.
Tip: It's a bar, not an office — go to drink coffee and talk about coffee.
🚇 Nimman Soi 5 — 2 min a pie
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Show on mapOld City
A roasting couple with the best cold brew selection in northern Thailand.
Tip: Try the anaerobic ferment cold brew — almost nobody else here makes one.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 7 min a pie
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Show on mapSantitham
A Santitham neighbourhood cafe, for everyone who's done with Nimman.
Tip: Santitham is where the nomad who's been here a year actually lives.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 6 min
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Show on mapNimmanhaemin
A local roastery with local prices and specialty quality. The hard equation, solved.
Tip: One of Nimman's cheapest options without dropping a rung in quality.
🚇 Nimman — 8 min a pie desde Maya
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Show on mapOld City
A fern garden with tables, hidden behind a gate in the middle of the Old City.
Tip: The homemade cakes are the real reason — order the coconut pandan.
🚇 Three Kings Monument — 5 min a pie
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A forest of clay sculptures with tables scattered through it. Like nowhere else.
Tip: Walk to the back of the garden — the biggest sculptures hide behind.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 5 min a pie
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A specialty bar right on Tha Phae Road. The Old City's technical pit stop.
Tip: It sits where the Sunday Walking Street starts — load up on caffeine first.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 3 min a pie
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A hillside cafe with an open valley view, on the way to Doi Kham. Worth the detour.
Tip: Pair it with Wat Phra That Doi Kham — ten minutes apart by Grab.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 15 min
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A brick piazza with a clock tower, Thai design stores and a weekend artisan market.
Tip: The artisan market runs weekend afternoons only — that's where the good stuff is.
🚇 Nimman Soi 1 — 2 min a pie
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Nimman's mall — brands, food court and the neighbourhood's rooftop bar scene.
Tip: The basement has Rimping supermarket — where you buy snacks to take home.
🚇 Nimman — esquina Huay Kaew Rd
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The biggest mall in the north — everything you couldn't find anywhere else.
Tip: The monsoon emergency plan — cinema, ice rink and 300 stores.
🚇 Grab desde Tha Phae Gate — 12 min
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A kilometre of Ratchadamnoen closed to traffic and taken over by makers. Unmissable.
Tip: Start at Tha Phae Gate at 4 PM and walk west — you go with the flow.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — arranca ahí mismo
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The Saturday walking street, in the silversmiths' quarter. Smaller, more local.
Tip: This is where you buy real silver — the local workshops open during the market.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 3 min a pie
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The real three-floor market: sai ua, textiles, herbs and zero tourist concessions.
Tip: The ground floor is where you buy sai ua and nam prik to take home.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 10 min a pie
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The classic night bazaar — handicrafts, knockoffs and haggling until 11 PM.
Tip: Always haggle — the first price is two to three times the real one.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 12 min a pie
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The Night Bazaar's annex — seafood courtyard, bars and far less shoving.
Tip: The seafood courtyard is the bazaar's best dinner — pick your fish off the ice.
🚇 Night Bazaar — 3 min a pie
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The weekend organic and design market, in brick sheds surrounded by garden.
Tip: Saturday and Sunday mornings only — by 1 PM they're packing up.
🚇 Grab desde Old City — 10 min
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An artists' village of ceramic studios, tiny bookshops and coffee. Properly slow.
Tip: Closed Mondays. On Sundays there's an artisan fair in the central courtyard.
🚇 Grab desde Nimman — 12 min
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A small open-air complex of independent stores and a little night market.
Tip: It's across from Maya — do both in the same walk.
🚇 Nimman — esquina Huay Kaew Rd
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Fair-trade Karen weaving and basketry, in a beautiful teak house.
Tip: Everything sold here goes back to the Karen villages — genuinely traceable.
🚇 Nawarat Bridge — 6 min a pie
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Handmade lacquer and gilded wood objects. Thai design you can actually carry home.
Tip: They ship internationally — if something big catches you, ask about shipping.
🚇 Nimman Soi 1 — 2 min a pie
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Naturally dyed textiles woven by northern Thai women. A world reference in the craft.
Tip: Ask about the indigo — the process takes weeks and they love explaining it.
🚇 Nimman Soi 1 — 3 min a pie
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Bean-to-bar chocolate made in Chiang Mai, in improbable Thai flavours.
Tip: The thai tea bar and the sticky-rice-and-mango one are the gifts that land.
🚇 Chiang Mai Gate — 6 min a pie
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Wild forest tea from the north, harvested without felling. Tasting if you ask.
Tip: Ask for the tasting — five forest teas, and they don't charge for it.
🚇 Grab desde Tha Phae Gate — 8 min
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Natural Thai cosmetics at an honest price. The souvenir everyone ends up buying.
Tip: The rice soaps and the lemongrass balm are the ones worth the suitcase space.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 2 min a pie
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Swiss bags from recycled truck tarps, in northern Thailand's only store.
Tip: Every bag is unique — no two alike, so if one gets you, that's the one.
🚇 One Nimman — planta baja
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Homeware and clothing in a colour maximalism you won't find anywhere else.
Tip: It shares a house with Ginger & Kafe — lunch and shop in the same stop.
🚇 Tha Phae Gate — 8 min a pie
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Handmade mulberry paper with pressed leaves and flowers inside. Workshop on show.
Tip: You can watch them make it at the back — ask and they'll let you through.
🚇 Wat Phra Singh — 3 min a pie
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A flower and plant market open through the small hours. Orchids at wholesale prices.
Tip: Come at 6 AM and watch the city assemble itself — one of the most photogenic markets.
🚇 Grab desde Chang Phueak Gate — 6 min
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The wholesale fruit and vegetable market. Chaotic, enormous and entirely real.
Tip: It's where the restaurants buy — go early morning or you see nothing.
🚇 Warorot Market — 8 min a pie
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