Doi Pui Viewpoint

This guide to Doi Pui Viewpoint outside Chiang Mai starts with a 1969 walk King Bhumibol took up this same ridge, at a time when Hmong families here were farming opium poppies for traders from over the border. It follows the king's Royal Project, which paid hill farmers to grow different crops instead, and the small museum a Hmong leader later opened in the village below to preserve the old way of life. Look toward the valley for the pine ridges the guide keeps returning to.