Why You Should Use TAGTHAi’s Premium Pass When You Travel in Chiang Mai

Think of Chiang Mai, and intact Lanna temples spring to mind. Given the proximity to fabled mountains, it’s also the numerous hiking trails running through moss-covered rainforests that appeal to travelers. Visits to several elephant sanctuaries, rafting and ziplining adventures, coffee farm tours, and intriguing encounters with tigers await when you travel in Chiang Mai. Compared with the Chiang Mai Day Pass, TAGTHAi’s Chiang Mai Premium Pass includes many more attractions – all bookable for a low-priced flat fee. 

So what to do in Chiang Mai Thailand? Here’s a selection of the countless benefits you get when you’re armed with the Premium Pass.

Included Activities

Coffee Farm Tour

Visiting a coffee farm is an enlightening experience for coffee lovers. It’ll make you aware of how much work goes into making delicious bean juice for consumers. Did you know you must collect seven pounds of cherries to produce a pound of green coffee beans? These cherries must be fully ripe. They usually grow on hill slopes amid plants and trees, like in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket region at a high altitude of up to 1,500 meters above sea level.

On a Chiang Mai coffee farm tour in the hilly, jungle-clad region of Doi Saket, you’ll understand that coffee is a fruit. You’ll roast coffee beans, make souvenirs from the cherries, and plant a coffee tree. The coffee farm tour culminates in the coffee garden, where you can sip a cup of drip coffee you have brewed yourself. If you make a reservation one day in advance in the TAGTHAi app, you’re good to go.

Elephant Retirement Park

A Chiang Mai day tour must include visiting an ethical animal sanctuary like the Elephant Retirement Park. The Elephant Retirement Park is one of Thailand’s best elephant sanctuaries, delivering on its name’s promise. You can watch these adorable giants eating grass and shrubs in their natural environment, roaming and blowing air from their trunks.

To provide a secure and comfortable place after decades in the elephant tourism sector, Adulwit Khamya, nicknamed Noi, founded this camp in Baan Eieag village in 2013, a one-hour drive from Chiang Mai City. The owner allows mud baths to sustain the camp, but riding is strictly forbidden, and the animals are never chained or abused. Visit Chiang Mai here in the country, and you can get wet and dirty alongside elephants purring like cats.

Khampan Rafting

Your Chiang Mai must-visit places continue with Khampan, a company that offers white-water rafting adventures on the fast-moving Mae Taeng River, a tributary of the Ping River. Imagine shooting over 14 rapids in a tiny boat, traveling 10 kilometers on fast-flowing water over rocks, and feeling the Mae Taeng roaring underneath your raft. You might spot wild elephants roaming along the riverbank if you get lucky. 

You’ll shout at the top of your voice as you jump down cliffs. The adventure tour also includes sliding down the Phachee Waterfall. Be sure to make a reservation in the TAGTHAi app in advance, as that’s required.

Tiger Kingdom

If you’re eager for an exciting experience, you’ll get your money’s worth at Chiang Mai’s Tiger Kingdom. Patting cubs or crouching next to full-grown felines will give you the thrill of your life, more so because there are up to four adult tigers in one cage. Their intimidating roar could be the sound of a Lamborghini engine.

These tigers are fed twice daily. They live for about twenty years and are the only cat species that are entirely striped. Mind you, no two tigers have the same arrangement of lines. Just as human fingerprints are unique, tigers’ stripe patterns are one-of-a-kind to each individual. Contrary to popular belief, these tigers are not sedated. Most of them were born here and therefore used to people.

Posing next to the king of the jungle is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure that’s pretty affordable. Without the Chiang Mai Premium Pass, this attraction would cost you $34. 

Other Attractions

A question you’ll never ask yourself when you have a Chiang Mai Premium City Pass is what to do in Chiang Mai for a day. In a Baan Farm Thai cooking school, you’ll learn how to taste Thailand home. The Kingkong Smile Zipline will live up to its name, as will the Phoenix Adventure Park which includes a high rope course. And coworking spaces in the trendy Nimman area guarantee you can get some work done on your travels.

Cafes & Restaurants

Chiang Mai is a mecca for foodies and coffee lovers. TAGTHAi has partnered with over 30 cafes and restaurants for the Premium Pass. You can even visit a vegan restaurant in Chiang Mai. Whatever food you love, all of the restaurants and cafes stand out, like this one:

Bay’s Cafe

Bay’s Coffee Co. is passionate about making quality coffee. The owners say their coffee has a richer taste and a smooth finish. The quality of this coffee is exceptional, and so is how the owners use the income they make from selling coffee. A portion of the company’s revenue is donated to local teenagers with social issues, so you can do good while enjoying a coffee break!

Bay’s Cafe offers you four sets of benefits under the Chiang Mai Premium Pass, like the coffee lemonade with a coconut lemon cake.

Massages

Time to Massage

Arguably the best way to end a fun-filled day is drifting off during a soothing oil massage. Consider the sensation of warm coconut oil on your skin. Depending on your preferences, you can instruct the therapist to use gentle, medium, or firm pressure. Whatever suits your fancy, travel to Chiang Mai – also called the Rose of the North. If you book a Thai massage in the TAGTHAi app, you can look forward to a treatment by a professional therapist squeezing and rubbing your body to relieve tension. 

For more attractions that aren’t heavy on your pocket, visit our website and see what else is included in our Chiang Mai Premium Pass.