Tourist attraction
Bhubing Palace
1 หมู่ที่ 12 Soi Sriwichai, Tambon Su Thep, Amphoe Mueang Chiang Mai, Chang Wat Chiang Mai 50200
Mountaintop royal winter residence with stilted Thai pavilions and famed rose gardens overlooking hill villages.
This guide to Bhubing Palace in Chiang Mai traces how a king's wish for a quick mountain retreat became something larger. Workers raised the whole residence in five months in 1961, and its first guests were Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, not Thai royalty at all. From there the guide follows King Bhumibol on foot into the Hmong villages below, walking the poppy fields and the poverty that opium farming left behind. It lingers on what he saw on those walks before turning to what he decided to do about it.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.