Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Ratchaworawihan

5 Miles Macdonald - 8 months ago

Love this place and spent over an hour here. Once up at the Temple a sign asks you to purchase an entry ticket, but there's no one staffing the ticket office. Great views over the valley and Chiang Mai, and a lovely Temple with many shrines. Fairly quiet when I was there around 9.30am and nice and cool.
Before you get to the Temple there are many stalls selling local crafts and beverages. Lots of spaces available for motorcycle parking.

5 Nik Ranger - a month ago

Beautiful temple and cultural icon. There’s great QR codes everywhere where you can learn about the temples, history and statue meanings. It’s a bit of a hike up the stairs but it’s only a 5min walk so low to moderate fitness would be ok if you’re ok with stairs. If you have injuries or aren’t adept with a large flight of stairs, there is the chair lift but I didn’t try it so not sure what it’s like.
There’s a bathroom located to the right near the chair lifts and again up at the top, both are free. Though take toilet paper, there’s none upon arrival.

There are heaps of vendors around but please be respectful of the sacred place, no shoulders, knees or shoes are allowed in the temple and there are more cultural things to be mindful especially in the presence of monks. Plus, don’t ring the bells.

All in all, it’s a calm serene place for worship and appreciation. The prices are reasonable, 30B to get in if you’re a foreigner and water is 10B. Anything else there’s plenty of vendors who could use the support post covid. It must’ve been a hard time for them but as always they’re all really sweet and lovely.

I’ve been here twice now, the views alone are stunning, would absolutely recommend to come here.

5 Juliette Bauche - 2 months ago

Stunning temple top of a hill giving a great view on Chiang Mai and the valley. Impressive gold stuff everywhere. Still in activity, monks singing in the evening. Great experience !

5 VpV - 4 months ago

Very beautiful temple, me and my wife came there for a sunrise, and it was amazing! The temple is amazing looking a specially with morning sun :)
To get to the temple, there are about 300 steps leading to the entry of the temple. Highly recommended!

3 Stefan Bendik - a week ago

Temple looks good, view of the city from the terrace as well. Of course on the way to the temple there is a myriad of vendors, making you feel like you are in Disneyland, not a spiritual place. And when you get to the temple itself, I have never seen so many donation boxes in my life. Every square meter must have had one. There was wall full of them. Like postal boxes in an apartment house, but with “insert purpose of donation” instead of names. Not a good look…

5 Larkin Crain - a month ago

Stunning wat atop Doi Suthep. 30/- entry fee for foreigners.

Small cafes sell water and coffee inside.

Beautiful views of the Chiang mai valley and nice teak buddhas inside.

5 BOSS KS - 4 months ago

One of the very great place to visit if you are new to Chiang Mai, well but even I travel to Chiang Mai almost every year I still visit there every time, still enjoy the view up there, temple is well restoration and maintain. Very beautiful.