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Northern Thailand, Thailand
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The Northern River Valleys is a hilly area with various river valleys in Northern Thailand.
By road
Highway 1, or Phahonyothin road, is the major highway going up north starts in Bangkok passes through Lampang and Phayao and ends in Chiang Rai.
The best way to get around the region is by car. In addition to private cars, many of the towns have scheduled buses that travel between the provinces.
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Hang Chat is a town in Lampang.
urban Northern Thailand without the commercialism
a scenic town with a long history and a longan festival
the former capital of a small kingdom filled with history and temples and surrounded by mountains
Phayao (พะเยา) is a city in the Northern River Valleys of Northern Thailand, about 700 km from Bangkok and 100km northeast of Chiang Mai.
a province full of handicrafts, indigo-dyed clothes and teak furniture. People are kind.
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