Tourist attractions in Chiang Rai Prefecture

More than 4 kilometers north from Chiang Rai, you will reach the famous "Golden Triangle". Here, the mountains are green, the little red-roofed huts are scattered in the meantime, and the mysterious atmosphere that lasts for a long time is the first choice for many tourists to visit Chiang Rai.

The "Golden Triangle" is located on the border between Myanmar and Thailand. It is named because the Mekong River with the border between Thailand and Laos and the Ruaku River with the border between Thailand and Myanmar meet here. A long time ago, local residents made a living by hunting, and later they began to grow poppies on a large scale to make huge profits. Now, after years of rectification by the Thai government, the Golden Triangle is no longer the troubled place where the smoke was everywhere. In Sop Ruak, the center of the Golden Triangle, there is a 4-meter-high golden triangle archway made of marble with the words "Welcome to the Golden Triangle" engraved in Thai and English. Many tourists take pictures here to commemorate it. Qingsheng is located in the north of Chiang Rai. Qingsheng was established by Ranatai Dynasty in 659 AD. It was once an independent small country, and was invaded and ruled by Myanmar for 25 years. It was not until the ancestor of today's dynasty, Zhao Paiye, defeated the Burmese army that Qingsheng was recaptured. There are still ruins of old city walls and many historical sites in the local area, and there is a' Qingsheng Museum', which is a branch of the National Museum of Thailand, displaying all kinds of ancient Buddha statues in the heyday and the customs and cultural relics of ethnic minorities in northern Thailand.

Qingsheng, because it is located at the junction of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, used to be a distribution center for opium poppy, from which all kinds of drugs in the Golden Triangle went south to Thailand and then were transported to all parts of the world. Nowadays, Qingsheng has become a famous tourist area, and local residents have given up planting poppies and planted other crops. However, it seems that local residents still have the tradition of smoking opium. The Jade Buddha Temple is located at the foot of the mountain where the municipal government is located. According to legend, the striking jade Buddha in the Jade Buddha Temple in Bangkok was first discovered here. Later, the jade Buddha passed through Chiang Mai and moved to Bangkok, the new capital of Thailand, becoming one of the landmark landscapes in Bangkok.