Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden ‘The heaven of blossom on earth’

‘Nature decreased stress.’, do you believe this? In the age that technology and science get developed every single day, people are seperated further from nature. They depend more electronic devices and mostly live in the middle of big city, facing urgency frequently, facing pollution, facing someone selfish, and lots more. These cause great, great anxiety.

People may don’t know that nature has such wonderful power. Our everyday life may leave us with something busy, so much that we don’t give our chance to look back at nature.

Therefore you should find yourself some time, bringing yourself to somewhere different, visiting somewhere that surrounded with greenery not concrete buildings, rushing out of busy life temporarily, staying in peaceful location for a moment, in order to decrease your stress and make your mind become more gentle.

If you’re thinking about some place that can make you feel better with its natural environment, then here is it a place you should never miss. Visit ‘Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden’ in Chiang Mai!

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden is a national park and a botanic garden in Pong Yaeng, Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province. The area is about 5.6 miilion square metres, really enormous. It is usually used for plant collection and reservation. These plants are grew in the most natural ways, or organic ways.

As soon as you arrive this place, you will definitely don’t believe your eyes. Just take a look around and you will see thousands of colorful flower and tree all over the place, looking so stunning. Nowadays it’s difficult to find place like this, because more factories and buildings are establish. Therefore many green areas have to be destroyed. Also, pollution are increased more and more.

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden consists of various zones. Each zone gives you good knowledge of botany. Prepare good cameras and tour them one by one. Seriously, you don’t want to forget the park’s beauty, not even one second.

General Information Centre

• This place was built for Thai plants and botanic  exhibition. Also, there are some books about botany for sale. The prices are affordable.

Glass Houses

• The big one is located in a wide field on a beautifu hill. There are many species of plant, for instances, tropical rain forest, or anything from all over Asia. The main heart of this one is using modern technology to control relative humidity. The technology is all about spraying water in the house, setting up artificial waterfall and forest atmosphere. However, there are still more minor glass houses, which are all filled with interesting plants like desert plants, water plants, or orchids too.

Thai Orchid House

• There are more than 350 kinds of orchid in here. All of them are forest orchids, having sweet smell and looking extremely gorgeous. The orchids were mostly collected from tropical rain forests or deciduous dipterocarp forests. Some species are rare items. But the orchids usually bloom all year around.

Botanic Learning Path

• Queen Sirikit Batanic Garden has arranged total 4 paths in the area especially for botanic learning:

1.  Waterfall Trail
2. Arboretum Trail
3. Climber Trail
4. Local Plant Trail

There are more than 30 species of plants here, for instances, palm, genus Pandanus, ginger, and lots more. You may feel a little bit worry about how you’re gonna know the name of each plant. Don’t worry! The park already installed labels for every plants, in order to give tourists information of the species.

Beside of taking a look at the flowers, this place is also good for other leisure activities. Some tourists love to bring their own food for picnic nearby Mae Sa Noi Waterfall. Also, you can just take a walk, take some nice photos or find some quiet spot to think about something personally.

But! The most incredible thing here is Canopy Walkway! The park just built it recently. This is Thailand’s longest sky walkway above trees.

This new activity at Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden. If you love challenge, don’t hesitate! Just go up there. 360” View over canopy the new canopy walkway at Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden. 20 meters up in the air, among the mountain treetops of the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, is Thailand’s longest canopy walkway. Experience a nature walk on a 400- meters-long bridge and look down at the subtropical jungle plants far below your feet. Constructed from steel, this canopy walkway offers a glass platform every 50-100 meters and, at the end, it rewards you with stretching views of the valley. All the way, trekkers will enjoy stunning 360-degrees views of the surrounding greenery and mountains.

The design is simply harmonious with nature. Of course, it’s super strong, due to steel. However, you are able to look down in some spots that are decorated with glass.

Now, don’t wait to long. Just grab your luggage and travel to Chiang Mai immediately!

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden opens daily from 8:30-17:00.

The admission ticket costs 40 Baht for an adult, 20 Baht for a student, 100 Baht for a car, 200 Baht for a bus. Elderly people, monks and novices are able to go in free!

Access passes to the Canopy Walkway is 40 Baht per person

How to get there

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden is located on  Area 1,  9 Block. Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai Province.

This place is very easy to travel to. Just travel from Mae Rim District. Keep going along Highway No.1096(Mae Rim-Samoeng) just for about 12 kilometres. Then you will find Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden on your left side.

For more details : you may contact 053-841234 directly.

Nearby Places

Onces you finish your tour at Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, you may want to go some places else too. So, here are some other tourist attractions in the same area.

1. • Mae Sa Elephant Kingdom

Elephants are national animal of Thailand. They’re strong. They’re cute. They’re smart. If you want to see them, visit there. You will meet many elephants in talent shows like drawing. It’s a good place for families to bring their children with.

1. • Mae Sa Waterfall

Mae Sa Waterfall is an impressive eight level waterfall with a small plunge pool for swimming in. It is popular with both Thai’s and foreign tourists and can get especially busy on weekends with families.

1. • Mon Jam

Mon Jam is a beautiful mountain top viewpoint and restaurant that has views over the Mae Rim Valley and Royal Project farms. There are lots of flowers being grown there so at most times of the year the top of Mon Jam is very colourful. You can also wander through a Royal Project farm and see most of the other farms from the mountain top.

1. • Snake Farm

Located on Mae Rim-Samoeng Road, this place is the house of various snakes. If you don’t fear them, then you probably want to go to. You will have an opportunity to learn about the species and also will see some shows between men and snakes.

1. • Dara Pirom Palace

This is a very historic museum located in Rim Tai County, Mae Rim District. Feel the touch of Thai culture in the past, from around the age of King Rama 5. Look at all stunning, glowing architectures.