Full Day The Golden Triangle: A Glimpse of Burma and Laos - Private

General information

DestinationCategory
Chiang Rai, ThailandSightseeing Tours

Program details

Your guide and driver will meet you at the hotel. Drive to Mae Sai, the bustling bordertown with Myanmar. We cross the border into Tachilek. By motor cycle taxi we visit a smaller version of the Shwedagon Pagoda and a couple of other temples in Burmese style. We visit the interesting border market before we cross back into Thailand.

Your guide and driver will meet you at the hotel. Drive to Mae Sai, the bustling bordertown with Myanmar. We cross the border into Tachilek. By motor cycle taxi we visit a smaller version of the Shwedagon Pagoda and a couple of other temples in Burmese style. We visit the interesting border market before we cross back into Thailand.


We continue to the famous Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet. Here we will have lunch in a local restaurant overlooking the Mekong River. After lunch we will visit the small Opium House. Then it is time to board a local longtailboat to bring us to the small island of Don Sao. It’s a nice boat trip. There are some souvenir shops on the island but…..you are officially in Laos!


It is now time to drive back to Chiang Rai. Along the way we will stop at Wat Chedi Luang, one of the impressive ruins remaining of the old city of Chiang Saen. Here you will make merit in a short ceremony before we continue to Chiang Rai. We drop you off at the hotel.





Meeting/pick-up point: Pick up at hotels in Chiang Rai City only.

Start/opening time: At 8am.

End/closing time: At 5pm.

Languages: English.

Others: Please present your voucher to the local guide at the beginning of the tour. When you enter Thailand again you only get a visa for 15 days.
Comfortable and light clothing is recommended.


Location
Starting point:
Hotel pickup

Guiding options
Guiding type: Guide