The Royal Project stations
Listed by the Ministry as “In the King's footsteps, the sufficiency way”
Highland farms set up under King Rama IX to replace opium with coffee, roses and cold-climate vegetables.
This is one of the Ministry of Tourism & Sports' own suggested routes for Chiang Mai. The places are theirs; the order and the distances are ours, because the Ministry files a route as a set of places rather than a sequence and driving it in the order given would take you back and forth across the province. We put the stops in the order you would actually drive them and measured the result.
The Ministry's record also lists Mae Hae Royal Project Development Center, Royal Agricultural Station Angkhang. They are too far from the rest to fit the same day, so they have been left off this route.
The route
In the order you would drive it, with the leg between each.
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Nong Hoi Royal Project Development Center
A Royal Project station on the ridge above Mae Rim, with the Doi Mon Long trail running out to a clifftop viewpoint at 1,460 metres. In cold season the mist lies in the valley below it at first light. Cold-climate vegetables and flowers are grown and trialled on the terraces.
Tourism Directory →Ministry of Tourism & Sports · Ministry of Tourism & Sports, Thailand 41 min · 22 km - 2
Royal Huay Phak Phai Rose Garden
The rose garden of the Huai Phak Phai Royal Project at Hang Dong, laid out in an English manner, with a restaurant serving vegetables cut on the site.
Tourism Directory →Ministry of Tourism & Sports · Ministry of Tourism & Sports, Thailand 47 min · 38 km - 3
Huai Phak Phai Royal Project (Royal Rose Garden)
Part of the Thung Roeng Royal Project at Hang Dong: more than 180 varieties of rose, kept in flower the whole year by the staff who work them.
Tourism Directory →Ministry of Tourism & Sports · Ministry of Tourism & Sports, Thailand 0 min · 0 km - ⌂
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