Hidden temple
Wat Pha Lat
Doi Suthep foothills (Monk's Trail), Chiang Mai, Thailand
A jungle temple reached only by a roughly 40 minute hike along the old monk's trail up Doi Suthep, so it stays quiet even when the mountain's famous main temple is packed.
Wat Pha Lat Photo by Stefan Fussan, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hours
Booking site listingOpen daily, roughly 6:00 AM to 5:30 PM
“Open: 6:00 AM-5:30 PM”
us.trip.com · Checked 24 Jul 2026
Price
Single reportTemple entry itself is free. Since Oct 1, 2025 the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park charges a separate trail fee for anyone entering via the Monk's Trail: 100 baht foreign adults, 50 baht foreign children, 20 baht Thai adults, 10 baht Thai children. Entry is free if arriving by the paved road 1004 instead.
“foreigners pay 100 baht, foreign children 50, Thai adults 20 and Thai children 10”
catmotors.net · Checked 24 Jul 2026
Age suitability
Not verifiedNot verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.
No check date recorded
Caveats
Re-fetched both cited sources fresh this run and both held up. Catmotors.net (single blog report) confirmed verbatim: the temple itself is free, but since October 1, 2025 the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park charges 100 baht for foreign adults, 50 for foreign children, 20 for Thai adults and 10 for Thai children to anyone…
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