Dantruong Travel & Tourism

Recently opened, the Chiang Mai Night Safari offers the adventurous a chance to enter the kingdom of animals, while keeping a safe distance from the comfortable urban life and a good hotel!

There are only a few night safari in the world (Singapore, Indonesia and Guangxi, China also have it), Chiang Mai Night Safari has proved himself with the explosion of local travelers and tourists. Chiangmai-nightsafari2Secara officially opened on January 1, 2006, safari is open to the public free of charge and the countless visitors who have taken advantage, where 40,000 people visited the safari every night and it has increased over the weekend – often even exceed the capacity!

The Safari offers a series of trips include three main zones. The Jaguar Trail offers visitors to walk about 1,200 meters and is open to both activities during the day and at night. Entered the area the Savanna Safari and Predator Prowl use the car that runs on the rails to take visitors around. This is an ideal opportunity to observe wildlife at night.

For more information you can see the Night Safari web site, but do not be surprised, this site is completely still speak Thai. Chiangmai-nightsafari1Semoga imminent changes for ease of information.

The trip along Chao Phraya River is a very exciting and
enjoyable thing to do for visitors either in the day time or in
the evening with dinner served on the river cruise. The most famous area to start is from Royal Orchid Sheraton – Oriental – Shangri-La hotels. Of course the river cruise can be made
from hotels on the opposite side such as the Penninsular,
the Marriot and some others.

During the day, a trip can be made with small long-tail boat,
taxi boat (slower), and with group tour. Mostly, they take
tourists into Bangkok Noi and other canals where you can
see typical and a completely different life-style along the
canals. These scenes are the old way of living in the past
that people depended mostly upon river and canals transportation. Now, the front access is the modern roads,
but canals are still used a lot. Typical old houses, temples, shops, and the way people buy and sell things can still
be seen, especially when you visit the “Floating Market”,
such as Bangsai Floating Market, and Taling Chan.

Chiangmai-doi.at  8,500 feet above sea level, Doi Inthanon is the highest mountain in Thailand. This is the best location for the sights and atmosphere offers visitors forests, bird life and waterfalls.

During the winter peak of Doi Inthanon is usually cool and dry, but in the last few years the air temperature fell lower and lower. Now you have a very rare opportunity to experience temperatures below freezing. This area is famous for fog when the temperature begins to decline and the image of a misty mountain beauty and the iconic look.

Chiangmai-doi4Dua large pagoda was built for the King and Queen of Thailand is located at the top of the mountain. Doi Inthanon forest has been designated as National Park. The trip to the mountain is often combined with a trip to Mae Klang waterfall, Wachiratan and Siriphum. With more than 400 species of birds, Doi Inthanon is the main objective to observe the birds.

Details: Various sites in and around Doi Inthanon provide varying ticket prices. However, a visit to Wat Phra Mahatat Naphamethanidon would cost 200 Baht and this gives free access to most of the other sites that are available here.

How to get there: Given the scale of the mountain of Doi Inthanon, join one of the many tour companies in town may provide the best path for you. Alternatively, take the bus to Chom Thong destination from Chiang Mai Gate (south city) and then take a bus to the destination Mae Klang waterfall, and then another bus to the mountain.

Donald Duck Bay Phuket
donaldduck1Ini location is well known and much photographed parts of the island. “Donald Duck Beach” located in “Similan Island 8″. Gulf became a very popular stopping point for visitors on their trip. Not only the most exciting diving in this area, but at night the animals mollusks, gastropod, crustaceans come out for dinner and a show night diving into a very interesting activity.
Sea life offers a variety of crabs and octopus and their derivatives and a large number of fish species. This location also provides the presence of a very common turtle seen here.

Lucy’s Reef Phuket
Located on the east Racha Yai, Coral Lucy or Lucy’s Reef is naturally protected from the wind and this is the location of a fairly shallow dive to depths slightly more than 25 meters. Therefore, this location is ideal for beginner divers. Reef in the underwater world offers hard and soft corals of different species of fish. Leopard sharks can also be seen at this location at any time.

Racha Islands – The tip of the North At Phuket
rachanoi1Salah one the best dive sites in Phuket Racha Islands, the northern end of Racha Noi offers underwater scenes dramatic.
Although this location is a relatively shallow dive (a dive start from 5 meters to a depth of about 35 meters), the current is very strong which means that only the most expert divers and can dive experience here.
This area is famous for big fish and coral reefs are incredibly beautiful. The islands are located 35 kilometers south Phuket and you need to rent a boat to get here.

Racha Noi Phuket
Racha Noi is uninhabited islands featuring coral reefs, rock hard and huge granite. This location has the best visibility in the Phuket area and offers the opportunity to see manta rays and whales.
Southern part of the island both for divers with a little more experience. Marine life including a large group of tuna and stingrays resting on the rock was in the midst of a rock formation that is very good. Racha Noi has some of the richest reefs in the Phuket area.

fantaseaFantasea Reef Phuket
Starting from the depth of 6 meters and down to depths of 40 meters, the mass of large rocks with fish swimming around a large soft corals to be typical of this location. Marine life exhibit themselves here, including Lion fish, eels and angel fish or angelfish.
Fantasea Reef became one of the best dive sites but only for expert divers only – is due to very strong currents make the potential risks and dangerous enough for the less experienced diver.

East of Eden Phuket
This is one of the best dive sites in the country. Depths ranging from 3 meters to 36 meters down to reveal the mass of fish and coral sand along the hamparannya. This site also offers a series of interesting caves, some offer a path to swim. Strong water currents make this location an ambitious target divers obsession, which can only be done by mid-level divers.

staghornStaghorn Reef Phuket
Located on the East coast of Racha Yai, Staghorn Coral Reef Staghorn or offers exceptional diving for all levels of diving and snorkeling sites are amazing. This location is very good especially for beginners.
As you can imagine from its name, there are many types of Staghorn coral on the seabed. Rock formations create underwater scenes to be dramatic. Dive begins at a depth of 5 meters and came down to a depth of about 25 meters.
Staghorn Reef location approximately 25 kilometers south of Phuket and chartering a boat is the best route to the location.

Bungalow Bay in Phuket
A location where the environmental conditions so calm and rarely change, Bungalow Bay offers a suitable dive site for beginner divers and those who do snorkeling or snorkellers. This location has some good rock on the seabed with boulders and sand.
Beginning at a depth of about 5 meters, the location down to a maximum depth of 30 meters. Location approximately 25 kilometers south Phuket, to achieve the best access is by boat or charter boat.

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Wat Phra That Doi Suthep probably the most important tourist site for visitors who come to Chiang Mai, Chiangmai-watphra2dan course the most easily seen. Wat Phra Doi Suthep Borommathat located on the side of Doi Suthep about 3.000 meters above sea level. This location could be there among the most beautiful sights you might see. It was built by King Gue-Na in 1383, this temple which puts a big Chedi made from copper plates (twenty-two feet high) covered in gold and containing holy Relic of the Buddha.

Besides being a major tourist destination, the temple is very important because the followers of the Buddhist Pilgrimage sites visited throughout the year. This temple had four rooms and one worship gold Buddha statue can be found in the temple. To be able to come here you can up a ladder (about 300 steps) or use the cable car.

Details: The cost for the cable car ride to the temple is 40 Baht. No entrance fee but a donation of 20 Baht, you are Advised to give. Chiangmai-watphra3Kuil open every day between 07.00-17.00 o’clock and this is a popular tourist destination so that you can estimate the crowd throughout the day.

How to get there: Wat Phra That Doi Suthep is 15 kilometers from Chiang Mai. Perhaps the easiest way to go here is to take one of many types Songtaew buses that regularly leave the city to the temple from the corner market and Chotana Road Manneenopparat Road (outside Gate Changpuak) at a cost of 60 baht (35 baht to the temple and 25 baht for the return fare). A number of tour packages Departing from the city at a cost of about 600 to 1000 Baht.