Chiang Mai Riding Guides

What you need to know before your first ride in Chiang Mai: driving on the left, helmets and checkpoints, the Old City moat, parking, fuel, mountain roads, the seasons and...

Chiang Dao is a valley town under Doi Luang Chiang Dao, Thailand’s third-highest mountain, about 74 km north of Chiang Mai. A cave temple with lantern-lit tunnels, a forest temple...

Mae Kampong is a wooden village in the forest at about 1,300 m, an hour east of Chiang Mai: tea and coffee, a creek, a waterfall and cool air. The...

The Bua Tong "Sticky" Waterfall is the one waterfall near Chiang Mai you can walk up: its limestone is rough and grippy, not slippery. About 60 km north on Route...

The Samoeng Loop is the classic day ride from Chiang Mai: about 100 km of mountain road through the Mae Sa valley, flower farms, pine hills and the sleepy town...

Thailand’s great motorbike road trip: about 600 km of mountain roads from Chiang Mai through Pai, Mae Hong Son and Mae Sariang. A five-day plan with distances, the best stops,...