Welcome to Chiang Mai. The Second largest city of Thailand .Founded in 1296 as the capital of the Lanna Kingdom, it has over 300 Buddhist temples, beautiful mountain scenery surrounds Chiang Mai. Chiangmai offers spectacular scenery, and is a great base for relaxing ,shopping, trekking, rafting, elephant riding and hill tribe visits. Regarded as a cultural and spiritual centre Chiang Mai is popular for handicrafts, silver, weaving and umbrellas making shopping the most popular acitivity among tourists.