Mae Sai

Built on a small hill up a steep staircase, overlooking Mae Sai and Tachileik, this temple and its stupa are unremarkable, but there are a few interesting monuments around it. Next to the stupa is a small Burmese temple that gives a nice taste of what awaits on the other side. Towards the river is a multistoried monument to King Naresuan, a Lanna king famous for beating back several Burmese invasions and dispatching the Burmese crown prince in a duel, and just in case the message of this isn't clear enough, there's also a giant scorpion statue brandishing its claws towards Tachileik. In 2019, a special exhibition hall, dedicated to the football team of the 12 boys trapped in a nearby cave for 10 days, was built on the main road leading up to the temple, directly opposite the main temple compound and the scorpion statue. Visitors are required to take off their shoes.

The infamous cave where a youth football team (12 players plus a coach) was trapped for more than two weeks in 2018. The team was successfully rescued in an international mission that involved 90 divers, though two divers died. There are exhibits about the rescue by the cave entrance. Tours should be available daily Oct–Jun (or Nov–Apr?) 08:00–17:00, although the cave was fenced off in December 2019. Trams are available to take visitors from the park entrance to the mouth of the caves, although the distance is less than one kilometre and can easily be reached by walking. If going without guide, note that the cave may get flooded when there are rains upstream, and it may be easy to get lost. See also Caves.