Doi Inthanon

Claire and I have just arrived back from a weekend away at Doi Inthanon, Southwest of Chiang Mai and Thailand's highest point. Doi Inthanon is a national park and we spent Saturday and Sunday going right to the top of the mountain (not a mountain by NZ standards, but a mountain here), seeing two pagodas (temples) near the top, visiting a Royal Agricultural project, seeing 3 waterfalls and trying to search for a cave walk that we never found!:)

It was a beautiful place to visit, with bright blue sky like we have in NZ, as opposed to the polluted haze in Chiang Mai. A lot of the bush higher up Doi Inthanon was similar to NZ as well and it felt like a brisk autumn day up near the top of Doi Inthanon - hence a jersey was needed:) On the way home today, we stopped off at Ban Tawai - a woodcarving village with wonderful furniture that I wish I could take home:) Have finished the day with a swim at the pool down the road - a good way to cool down in the heat. Here are some pictures from the weekend.

One of the pagodas on Doi Inthanon

The beautiful gardens next to the pagodas

  

View of the two pagodas

At Wachirathan waterfall

Rice paddies near Doi Inthanon

Mae Ya Waterfall - definitely the most epic!

Claire and I at the highest point in Thailand 

Claire at Mae Klang waterfall