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The Best Attractions In Chiang Rai

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Chiang Rai (Thai: เมืองเชียงราย, pronounced [mɯəŋ tɕʰiəŋ raːj]; Lanna: ᩮᨾᩥᩬᨦᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩣ᩠ᨿ: Mueang Jiang Hai; is a city in Mueang Chiang Rai District, Chiang Rai Province. Chiang Rai is the northernmost large city in Thailand. It was established as a capital city in the reign of King Mangrai, in 1262 CE.
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  • 1. Wat Rong Khun Chiang Rai
    Wat Rong Kun , perhaps better known to foreigners as the White Temple, is a contemporary, unconventional, privately-owned art exhibit in the style of a Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is owned by Chalermchai Kositpipat, who designed, constructed, and opened it to visitors in 1997.
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  • 6. Wat Phra Kaeo (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) Chiang Rai
    Wat Phra Kaew, commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand. The Emerald Buddha housed in the temple is a potent religio-political symbol and the palladium of Thai society. It is located in Phra Nakhon District, the historic centre of Bangkok, within the precincts of the Grand Palace.The main building is the central phra ubosot, which houses the statue of the Emerald Buddha. According to legend, this Buddha image originated in India where the sage Nagasena prophesied that the Emerald Buddha would bring prosperity and pre-eminence to each country in which it resides, the Emerald Buddha deified in the Wat Phra Kaew is therefore deeply revered and venerated in Thailand...
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  • 7. Doi Mae Salong Chiang Rai
    Doi Mae Salong is a mountain in Thailand, part of the Daen Lao Range. It is in the northern part of Chiang Rai Province six km from the border with Burma. This mountain rises in Mae Fa Luang District. Its summit is near the town of Santikhiri which is built on the ridge.This mountain is famous because a Kuomintang military division created a settlement near it in 1961 after having been expelled from Burma.
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  • 9. Chiang Saen Chiang Rai
    Chiang Rai (Thai: เมืองเชียงราย, pronounced [mɯəŋ tɕʰiəŋ raːj]; Lanna: ᩮᨾᩥᩬᨦᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩣ᩠ᨿ: Mueang Jiang Hai; is a city in Mueang Chiang Rai District, Chiang Rai Province. Chiang Rai is the northernmost large city in Thailand. It was established as a capital city in the reign of King Mangrai, in 1262 CE.
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  • 10. White Temple Chiang Rai
    Wat Rong Kun , perhaps better known to foreigners as the White Temple, is a contemporary, unconventional, privately-owned art exhibit in the style of a Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is owned by Chalermchai Kositpipat, who designed, constructed, and opened it to visitors in 1997.
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  • 14. Fah Thai Market Chiang Rai
    The Mae Fah Luang Foundation is a Thai non‐profit organization that manages numerous projects within Thailand as well as other countries in Asia. The Foundation’s mission focuses on three main areas: “improving social and economic development, preserving the environment, and supporting local art and culture.” In 1972, the late Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra , grandmother of the present King of Thailand, founded the Thai Hill Crafts Foundation to offer market access for craft-making villages in the Northern highlands. It was later renamed the Mae Fah Luang Foundation in 1985, after the name given to the Princess Mother by the ethnic minorities, meaning “royal mother from the sky.” The new name indicates the growing scope of social development efforts the Foundation wa...
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