Doi Mon Chong, Chiang Mai ⛰️
🗺️ Overview:
A mountain under the care of Omkoi Wildlife Sanctuary, Chiang Mai Province. If you want to recommend a hiking trail for beginners, this is the place. Easy to walk, fun, cold, you can experience hiking, the atmosphere on top of the mountain, sunrise, sunset, sea of fog, beautiful light and bright stars in the sky.
It is one of the 10 highest peaks in Thailand (1929m), but easy to walk.
🚗 Travel:
Coordinates: Muser Forest Protection Unit, Omkoi Wildlife Sanctuary, Omkoi District, Chiang Mai Province
https://maps.app.goo.gl/s2tfBauBCkP3UajPA
🌄 Tourism:
-You must book a hiking trip only on the Omkoi Wildlife Sanctuary website.
-You must take a local 4WD vehicle to the starting point. 1 hr 16 km, you have to hold on to iron, your hands hurt a lot. It is recommended to bring gloves.
-Total distance 4-5 km, not difficult to walk, there are only very steep points at the beginning. And a little bit of the end
- It takes 3-4 hours to go up, 2-3 hours to go down
- Open for tourism from Nov (green) to Feb (gold)
- Travel time 2 days 1 night
🏞️ Tourist attractions above:
- Chang Golf Course (golden grass field) before the tent site
- Doi Hua Sing, you have to walk from the tent site
- Hua Wan, walk past the top of Hua Sing
- Chedi (there is a path that goes very far, but I have never been there)
- Watch stars**
- Sea of fog
- Sunrise and sunset
⛰️ Interesting things:
- November-December, green grass field / late December-February, golden grass field
- It is a mountain where you can see stars very clearly, full of stars
- To say that the sunrise and sunset would be ordinary because we are at a very high point, allowing us to see the first and last light of the sun, something that is hard to experience and it is very beautiful!!
-Morning sea of fog, 360-degree view, as far as the eye can see, all around, so magnificent
-Very cold weather
🛒 Facilities:
-Porter, 800฿ for 20kg, up and down (cash payment)
-Tents for rent
-Bathrooms
🌡️ Weather:
I went in early December, the lowest temperature was 11 degrees, cold, windy (feel like lower than this)
Jan-Feb, colder
☎️ Contact:
-FB: Omkoi Wildlife Sanctuary
-FB: Doi Mon Chong Tourist Service Center - Ban Muser
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