There are so many temples, just within the old city alone. If you want to visit every one of them, you will definitely need more time to truly appreciate each and everyone of them. Despite that, we still attempted to visit some of them, we tried to pick out what seem interesting to us. Some of these temples are quite interesting and we also managed to put in a prayer or two in some of the temples. If you are someone who isn’t that much interested seeing old cultural and religious centres, then I would say, Chiang Mai’s old city may not really be for you. However, what we found extremely fun though, was cycling between those landmarks. We really enjoyed just taking in the history and city views on bicycle, taking our time and having the freedom to pick where we want to stop.

While I did say that Chiang Mai old city is all about old culture and religious sites, there are still other places of interests, outside of the city. In the next day, we ventured further outside of the city to visit Doi Suthep mountain. There is some nature to be seen and the ride up was interesting as well. There are some tour packages that you can take for Doi Suthep which covers some landmarks within this mountainous area. But for us, we took up a half day tour with KLOOK. We visited one of northern Thailand’s most sacred temples that sits at the top Doi Suthep. This temple is worth a visit as the journey up the mountains is quite beautiful and the views Chiang Mai you get from the temple of is breathtaking.