Private Tour: A Glimpse of Myanmar and the Golden Triangle Trip from Chiang Rai

Your guide and driver will pick you up from the hotel. Drive to Mae Sai, the bustling border town. Cross the border into Myanmar. By tuk tuk we will explore Tachilek. You will visit the Temple of the Enrobened Elephant and the Mahamyatmuni Temple, a fine example of typical Burmese temple architecture. Continue to Tachilek’s own Shwedagon Pagoda, a smaller copy of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. After this we will enjoy an authentic Burmese lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch there will be time to visit the interesting border market, a favorite destination for Thai day-trippers. 

Return to Thailand. Continue to the Golden Triangle, the place where the borders of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar meet. Visit the Hall of Opium, an excellent museum that tells the history of the use of Opium, poppy cultivation and the opium trade in the Golden Triangle*. 

Return to your hotel in Chiang Rai later this afternoon.

* The Hall of Opium is closed on Monday. If the tour is on this day we will make visit a smaller Opium Museum instead and make a boat trip on the Mekong River.

** Please note that your Thailand visa will be valid after you cross to Burma. You will get only 15 days visa after the trip end and return back to Thailand. So, we won't recommend this trip to guests who plan to stay in Thailand longer than 15 days after this trip.