Wat Pha khao — Attraction in Chiang Mai Province

Love this temple! It's right in the middle of the city yet it feels as if you were in the countryside. Once you enter the courtyard, you're surrounded with a well maintained garden, Asian instrumental music plays in the background and all you want to do is just sit on a bench and relax. There's also free wifi and toilet, cheap smoothies...

Once again a beautiful little temple along the main tourist road. Definitely worth a visit if you pass it or are on a longer temple run but a temple that doesn’t make it to the top 5 in Chiang Mai. The 10 minutes I spend here was worth it. It’s so easy to do all the temples in the old city in 1 day and of course this one should be...

After visiting so many temples in Chiang Mai, I passed by this one and decided to visit one more. First temple I felt peace! Very quiet, the construction work going on couldn’t disturb the peace inside the temple. A friendly monk came to talk to me, he taught me how to meditate: “focus on breathing in and...