Mae Rim
About 30 minutes north, covering the settled lower valley and the Mae Sa corridor up to around Prem Tinsulanonda International School — the mountains beyond are a separate world. This is the "Mae Rim" people mean when they talk about living up north: rural and cool, with everything from modest Thai-style homes to luxury villas on generous land, and Chiang Mai Green Valley and Supalai Bella among the area's best-known gated communities. The occasional real elephant sighting along the back roads is not a tourist-brochure exaggeration. Fair warning — rush-hour traffic down the single highway corridor is genuinely awful — but the rural lanes beyond are some of the loveliest driving in Chiang Mai. Anchors: Mae Sa Valley, Huay Tung Tao Lake, Prem Tinsulanonda International School, the Four Seasons Resort, and Kad Farang Mae Rim.
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