from the city to the clouds - Bhubing Palace

Everyday just gets better. After traveling to my roommates hometown and riding elephants, today we went to the Bhubing Palace which is a Royal Residence located Doi Buak Ha, Muang District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. After visiting the palace we headed up Doi Suthep and visited the Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep at the top of the mountain.



-the trip to the mountain (the mountain is Doi Suthep and the palace and Wat are located at the top) was about 45 mins because we had to travel from the center city of Chiang Mai up it through the clouds to the Wat and palace. It was honestly like entering a new world. Over the course of the climb you could just feel the drastic change in temperature.



- the view at the middle was incredible, imagine the top

On the way up the mountain we passed many small towns that seemed like they were embedded in the jungle. The people who live in these towns are called hills people and they speak an entirely different language from Thai people. I found it fascinaing how even though Chiang Mai is 30 minutes away from these villages we passed, they speak different languages.




After arriving to the top we saw the palace, which was erie. Don't get me wrong, it was amazing but it happened to be very foggy when we were walking around so I felt like I was on a different planet. Visitors are only allowed to walk around in limited areas and they only get a 30 minute time period.

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After the palace, or should I say after we got forced out after a measly 30 minutes we went further up the Doi Suthep and walked to the never ending steps to the Wat



We said our prayers, walked around and marveled at where we were