Places

สถานีขนส่งอาเขต

The intercity bus station on Kaew Nawarat Road, northeast of the river, beside the Superhighway. Terminals 2 and 3 serve the north and the rest of…

ท่าอากาศยานเชียงใหม่

The airport sits inside the first ring, so close to the old city that Mahidol Road, the southern arc of that ring, had to be threaded past its fence.…

สถานีรถไฟเชียงใหม่

The end of the northern line, east of the river. The first train ran on 1 January 1921 through the Khun Tan tunnel; Tha Phae became the commercial…

มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่

The university at the foot of Doi Suthep, opened 1964 on land the Nimmanhaemin family gave to the government in 1963. The road along the gift's edge…

ดอยสุเทพ

The mountain west of the city, 1,676 m, with the temple two-thirds of the way up. Huay Kaew Road and then the monk's road of 1935 climb it; the…

กำแพงดิน

A semicircular outer rampart of earth, running from Si Phum Corner round the east side and along the south to Ku Hueang Corner, enclosing the trading…

คลองแม่ข่า

A stream of about 31 km that Mangrai counted among the site's seven auspicious features and used as the outer moat, east of the earthen wall. By the…

แม่น้ำปิง

The river east of the old city. Mangrai put the square on the higher ground between Doi Suthep and the Ping rather than on the bank; the bank flooded…

คูเมือง

The water square around the old city: 6.54 km round, about 1.6 by 1.7 km, the north side the longest at 1.67 km. About 13 m wide now, up to 25 m…

เวียงกุมกาม

Mangrai's first city on this plain, founded 1286 on the Ping's bank south of the present city and abandoned after floods; the ruins were dug out of…