After buying my detailed map of the North of Thailand myself and my mate from Australia found nothing better than sitting at a bar the night before and having a couple of beers before deciding where we should go on our scooters the following day, plenty of places to choose from and we just pointed with our fingers at a tourist attraction and then said "We go for Look". We always checked with the girls and got the standard answer "upto you".
This time we decided to go to the San Kamphaeng Hot Springs, heres is a bit of history : it is located just 23 km from San Kamphaeng district and about 36 km from Chiang Mai City. It is situated amid natural surroundings of shady trees and fertile hills. The drive to the small weaving village of San Kamphaeng passes by a large number of handicraft shops and the famous umbrella village of Bo Sang. Some 3km beyond the village is the pleasant forty-acre park containing the hot springs.
The park has been well landscaped and in the cool season the flowers are very lovely making it a good place for picnics. There you can find a camping area, a swimming pool, restaurant dining facilities and segregated mineral water bathing room huts are also available.
The San Kamphaeng Hot Spring is the ideal destination for health and physical well being. The water has high sulphur content and possesses curative and restorative properties. This is a very active geological area. The water, at a temperature of a hundred degrees centigrade, comes from a deep source. Attempts have been made to harness this energy and there is a research station nearby with information on display.
We left the Raming Hotel at our usual early start of about 11am and head out of the city enjoying the sites, as always I am stopping regularly to take a pic, we also stop to buy fruit which is plentiful on the store on the side of the road. What we found with the store owners was even though they dont speak english just point and ask if "good" and then next they will be slicing one of the fruits open for us to try before we buy.
Her's a few pics I took along the way.............
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