Doi Tung & Mae Fah Luang-Chiang Rai

Drive up to the interesting Doi Tung development project. Initiated in 1988 by the late Princess Mother of Thailand, the project set out to end opium cultivation, crime and illegal logging. A steady transformation was achieved through improved health care and infrastructure, education, reforestation, cottage industries and crops such a coffee to replace opium poppies. Handicraft production, tourism and other industries helped to make the area the excellent model of self-sufficiency which you will see for yourself on this tour.