Fang

Fang (ฝาง, pron. fahng) is a city in northern Chiang Mai Province, Northern Thailand.

Get in
You can take the local bus from Chang Phuak bus station in Chiang Mai. Fang is 152 km from Chiang Mai and it takes about 3 hours to get there by local bus. A ticket costs 80 baht. Halfway, the bus stops for a bathroom break and a snack.

To the northeast, Thaton is about 40 minutes from Fang by songthaew, with Chiang Rai another 3 hours away.

Get around
It's not possible to hire a motorbike, because so few tourists visit Fang there are no rentals. Monmai Resort does offer car hire, but you have to be a guest of the resort and rates start from 1000 baht per day with limited availability. Discovering the area, which is really beautiful and therefore worth to do so, is only otherwise possible by going on a tour. Then you'll be driven around in a car, jeep, or pickup.



Do

 * There does not seem to be any public transport to the springs, and local drivers take advantage of this.
 * A moto-taxi might cost you 250-300 baht one way; considerably more if you want them to wait.
 * A moto-taxi might cost you 250-300 baht one way; considerably more if you want them to wait.

Buy

 * Local markets. One springs up periodically across from the bus station selling fresh produce, clothing, household goods. There is another selling mainly clothes which seems always open on the west side of the main road in the center of town.
 * Supermarket. On Thesaban soi 8.
 * Supermarket. On Thesaban soi 8.

Eat
As everywhere in Thailand there are plenty of local restaurants down the streets where you can get Thai and Chinese dishes.

Sleep

 * At the turn in Chotana Rd where the bridge is, if you go the other way north down the small road, then take a right, there is a clean but dilapidated guesthouse with 200-, 250- and 300-baht rooms.
 * At the turn in Chotana Rd where the bridge is, if you go the other way north down the small road, then take a right, there is a clean but dilapidated guesthouse with 200-, 250- and 300-baht rooms.
 * At the turn in Chotana Rd where the bridge is, if you go the other way north down the small road, then take a right, there is a clean but dilapidated guesthouse with 200-, 250- and 300-baht rooms.
 * At the turn in Chotana Rd where the bridge is, if you go the other way north down the small road, then take a right, there is a clean but dilapidated guesthouse with 200-, 250- and 300-baht rooms.
 * At the turn in Chotana Rd where the bridge is, if you go the other way north down the small road, then take a right, there is a clean but dilapidated guesthouse with 200-, 250- and 300-baht rooms.
 * At the turn in Chotana Rd where the bridge is, if you go the other way north down the small road, then take a right, there is a clean but dilapidated guesthouse with 200-, 250- and 300-baht rooms.

Go next

 * Chiang Dao - hill tribes, hiking and Thailand's third-highest peak
 * Doi Ang Khang - mountain resort
 * Thaton