StopsPa Bong Piang rice terraces
นาขั้นบันไดป่าบงเปียง
Karen rice terraces stacked down a whole hillside, greenest in the rains and gold before harvest.
Takeaway · CC BY 3.0What it is
In Mae Chaem district, off the eastern end of the 1263 cut. One of the reasons to take the shortcut at all.
The long version
Tradition holds — these are working Karen terraces, farmed, not a viewing platform. They are at their green between about July and September and turn gold before the harvest around October and November.
Inference — the timing is the opposite of most of this circuit's advice. The cool dry season that everyone books is when the terraces are cut stubble. If the terraces are what you came for, come in the green season — which is also, from the air data, the cleanest air of the year.
Getting there is a side road off the Mae Chaem end, and it is the kind of place where arriving early means having it to yourself.
Runs with
- townMae Chaem — The district it is in.
- legThe 1263 cut — The leg that reaches it.
- personThe Karen — Whose fields these are.
- eventThe rains — When they are green.
Named here by
- eventThe Akha Swing Festival — Green at exactly the same weeks.
- eventKhao Phansa and Ok Phansa — Green for exactly these months.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | harvested | OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Mae Chaem district — Wikipedia (en)
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors
- Karen peoples — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there