Chiang Mai Hotel - Discounter - Agents Rates for Chiang Mai HotelsChiang mai travelThe park chiang mai travel is rugged and mountainous with Doi Inthanon reaching 2,565 m above sea level -- the chiang mai travel highest point in Thailand. Doi Hua Mod Loing is the second highest peak, and stands chiang mai travel at 2,330 m. The park is the source of the Mae Klang, Mae Pa Kor, chiang mai travel Mae Pon, Mae Hoi, Mae Ya, Mae Jam, and Mae Karn streams. The water from chiang mai travel the streams also generates electricity at the Bhumibhol Dam. Outstanding Attractions - As many road access points have now been constructed, private transportation chiang mai travel is a convenient way to visit Doi Inthanon. In fact, the main attractions are spread chiang mai travel over a 40 km range, and only a private vehicle will give you the ability chiang mai travel to make the most of your trip. A motorcycle is perhaps the best way to chiang mai travel get through the rough and narrow dirt roads that lead to the hill tribe villages. chiang mai travel Nevertheless, if you want to really get in touch with the park -- and thoroughly chiang mai travel absorb its natural beauty, then walking or hiking is highly recommended. There are many footpaths chiang mai travel and trails to follow on Doi Inthanon as a result of the long occupation by chiang mai travel the hill tribes. The starting point is usually at the Mae Klang Waterfall, which is chiang mai travel located 66 km south west of Chiang Mai. You could then choose to stay over chiang mai travel at the Mae Aeb Karen Village for the first night, at Pa Mon Karen Village chiang mai travel for the second night, at Pang Somdet Village for the third night, followed by a chiang mai travel walk up to the summit the next morning. The imposing Doi Inthanon, located in Chiang chiang mai travel Mai province, is the highest point in the country, and is often dubbed 'The Roof chiang mai travel of Thailand'. In Doi Inthanon National Park there are also several lesser summits to explore. chiang mai travel Geologically speaking, the mountain range is largely composed of granite batholiths that extend in a chiang mai travel southerly direction towards the Shan Hills range in Myanmar (Burma), and form the division between chiang mai travel the Ping River to the east and the Mae Chaem River to the west. The chiang mai travel park covers an area of 301,500 rai (482 sq km), taking in parts of the chiang mai travel Son Pa Tong, Jom Tong, and Mae Jam districts. This mountainous park is also home chiang mai travel to one of the most impressive waterfalls in Thailand, the Mae Ya Waterfall. Climate - chiang mai travel The lowlands, below 800 m in elevation, are warm and dry outside the rainy season, chiang mai travel but the summit of Doi Inthanon has a climate more like Canada than Thailand! The chiang mai travel temperature sometimes drops down to –8 degrees Celsius, and frost is not unusual during the chiang mai travel cool and dry season. January is the coldest month with an average nighttime temperature of chiang mai travel 5.5 degrees Celsius. In any season, though, Doi Inthanon is a great place to visit chiang mai travel if you want to be free from the heat of the lowlands. In 1959, the chiang mai travel Doi Inthanon Forest was one of fourteen throughout the country that had been established as chiang mai travel National Parks by the government. And in 1965 it was named as a National Conservation chiang mai travel Area. Later on, in 1972, the park's boundaries were extended by the Forestry Department of chiang mai travel Thailand to include the Ban Loing, Sob Tai, Song Kael, Yang Karm, Jom Tong, Mae chiang mai travel Vin, and Son Pa Tong districts and sub-districts. On 16th January 1974, during a visit chiang mai travel by His Majesty the King and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit to Doi Kun Klang, he chiang mai travel suggested that the boundaries of the park be further extended. In February the Mae Suank, chiang mai travel Chang Keng, and Ta Pha subdistricts became part of the park. Due to the park chiang mai travel extension projects, in 1975 the Doi Inthanon National Conservation Forest, the Jom Tong National Conservation chiang mai travel Forest, and the Mae Jam National Conservation Forest all became the Doi Inthanon National Park chiang mai travel that we know today. In the past Doi Inthanon was known as Doi Loing, or chiang mai travel 'Doi Ang Ka' (Doi meaning mountain). Doi Loing therefore means a big mountain. The name chiang mai travel Doi Ang Ka was sometimes used, as about 300 m away from the mountain's base chiang mai travel there was a pond shaped like a washing tub (Ang). Flocks of crows (Ka) also chiang mai travel used to gather at the pond, and that is how the name came to be chiang mai travel adopted. But what about the name 'Doi Inthanon'? Chiang Mai’s last sovereign, King Inthawichayanon, with chiang mai travel great foresight, expressed concern for the forests of the hilly countryside in the north. He chiang mai travel was aware that it served as the watershed for the whole of central Thailand. Before chiang mai travel his death, he commanded that his remains were to be placed on the summit of chiang mai travel Doi Loing. After his demise his wishes were carried out, and the mountain was renamed chiang mai travel 'Doi Inthanon' in honour of his name. The stupa at the summit that houses his chiang mai travel remains is visited by thousands of people every year. Forests and Wild Animals - The chiang mai travel forested national parks of Thailand are immensely valuable towards preserving the country's heritage. In the chiang mai travel Doi Inthanon National Park the forests comprise hilly evergreen forests, pine forests, tropical rain forests, chiang mai travel and more. The park is also a source of many economically valuable woods like teak chiang mai travel and pine, but logging has been discouraged for a number of years now. Moreover, there chiang mai travel is a large variety of beautiful and colourful flowers, such as the forest rose, and chiang mai travel a host of other flora that cannot be seen anywhere else in Thailand. Sadly, many chiang mai travel animal species are becoming extinct due to destructive deforestation, and non-stop hunting by the hill chiang mai travel tribe people. But you can still sometimes catch a glimpse of tigers; and gibbons, deer, chiang mai travel wild pigs, Siamese hares, fowls and other animal life still abound, thanks to the vigilance chiang mai travel and protection of the park rangers. |
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