Why should you go there and how do you do it right?

Hiring a car with a driver and guide is the best way to explore Chiang Rai, and that's exactly what Dao Raya offers. She organizes the service privately, so you won't have to sit in crowded minibuses or wait twenty minutes at every stop while someone finishes taking photos. You tell her what you want to see, and she plans the day.

This flexibility is more important here than in most other parts of Thailand. The sights of this province are widely scattered: temples, hill tribe villages, border towns, and vast rural areas in between. On a group tour, you visit three of these places and enjoy a leisurely lunch. With a driver, you can flexibly adjust the itinerary or skip individual stops altogether if they aren't scheduled for landing.

Bookings are made via the Facebook page, where a phone number is also listed. I would like to contact you well in advance of your travel dates, especially between November and February when everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere is traveling to Northern Thailand at the same time.