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		<description><![CDATA[Orchid &#038; Butterfly Farms Mae Rim &#8211; Samoeng route Major nurseries in the Mae Sa Valley include the Mountain Orchid, Mae Rim Orchid and Sai Nam Phung Orchid complexes. Each provide opportunities for visitors to admire these exotic year-round blooms. Certain orchid farms also have special butterfly enclosures wherein exotic species can be seen in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><strong><em><img height="120" alt="Orchid &#038; Butterfly Farms" hspace="5" width="120" align="right" vspace="5" src="/Image/article_pic/0079_orchid_farms.jpg" />Mae Rim &#8211; Samoeng route</em></strong><br />
Major nurseries in the Mae Sa Valley include the Mountain Orchid, Mae Rim Orchid and Sai Nam Phung Orchid complexes. Each provide opportunities for visitors to admire these exotic year-round blooms. Certain orchid farms also have special butterfly enclosures wherein exotic species can be seen in their natural environment. <br />
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Mae Sa Waterfall<br />
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<p><strong><em>26 km from town,Mae Rim-Samoeng route</em></strong><br />
This 8-tiered waterfall is 26 kilometres from town and occupies a natural setting among gigantic, towering trees. <br />
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<h2>Elephant Training Centres<br />
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<p><strong><em><img height="108" alt="Elephant Training Centres" hspace="5" width="100" align="right" vspace="5" src="/Image/article_pic/0079_elephant.jpg" />Km 10 on the Mae Rim-Samoeng route<br />
</em></strong>Each morning, at Km 10 on the Mae Rim-Samoeng route, trained elephants demonstrate their formidable and highlyvalued forestry skills from 9.30 until 11.00 AM, at the Mae Sa Elephant Training Centre. The centre is some 30 kilometres from town. Admission is 80 baht per person. A jungle tour on elephant back, lasting more than two hours through adjacent forests, is offered after the show and costs 250 baht per person. Elephants can also be seen at the Pong Yaeng Elephant Centre at KM 19 on the same route, and the Elephant Nature Park at Mae Taman on the Chiang Mai-Fang Road, some 57 kilometres from Chiang Mai. <br />
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Queen Sirikit Botamic Garden<br />
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<p><strong><em><img height="153" alt="Queen Sirikit Botamic Garden" hspace="5" width="100" align="right" vspace="5" src="/Image/article_pic/0079_queen_sirikit_botamic.jpg" />Km 12 on Mae Rim-Samoeng route</em></strong><br />
Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden is located at the foothills of Doi Suthep-Pui, Mae Rim, covering an arear of about 960 hectares.The main objectives of the garden are to serve as a center of Thai flora for botanical study and research, to render services concerning biodiversity and environmental conservation, as well as to provide an aesthetic place for the general public. <br />
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Resorts<br />
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<p><strong><em><img height="105" alt="Resorts" hspace="5" width="150" align="right" vspace="5" src="/Image/article_pic/0079_resorts.jpg" />Mae Rim-Samoeng-Hang Dong route</em></strong><br />
Several picturesque resorts, with accommodation and dining facilities, offer bucolic rural living on the Mae Rim-Samoeng route (1096) and include Mae Sa Valley Resort, Kangsadan resort, Pong Yaeng Garden Resort and Erawan Resort, and the Samoeng-Hang Dong route (1239) which includes Lanna Resort, Baan Klang Doi resort, Krisadadoi Resort, Belle Villa and Suan Bua Resort. Some occupy hillsides, others secluded valleys. <br />
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