Witthawat Yutthagosa · CC BY-SA 4.0Stand on the highest ground in ThailandThe only one in ThailandDoi Inthanon National ParkThe country's highest point is a cool, mossy cloud forest rather than a view. The view is at the twin royal chedis five kilometres below it.2,565 metres, and often frozenWant toDone itNo thanks
Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0Release a lantern at the festival that invented the imageFreeThe only one in the continentTha Phae GateYi Peng is Lanna, not Thai. The photograph everyone has seen of a sky full of lanterns is this festival, in this city.24 and 25 November 2026Want toDone itNo thanks
Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0Walk the meditation tunnels dug for a single monk in 1297FreeThe only one in ThailandWat UmongThe king's favourite monk could not find quiet inside the city walls, so the king had tunnels cut into a forested hillside for him. They are still there, and you can walk them.Brick tunnels, 1297Want toDone itNo thanks
Chainwit · CC BY 4.0Stand under the broken chedi that held the Emerald BuddhaThe only one in ThailandWat Chedi LuangFor most of a century Thailand's most sacred object lived in this tower. An earthquake took the top off in the 1500s and it has been left that way ever since.82 metres, until the earthquakeWant toDone itNo thanks
Climb up a waterfall that cannot be slipperyFreeThe only one in the continentBua Tong Sticky WaterfallThe rock is tufa limestone, laid down grain by grain by a calcium-heavy spring. Algae will not grow on it, so you climb up the falls instead of looking at them.Barefoot, against the waterWant toDone itNo thanks
Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0See the only ordination hall in the world made of silverThe only one on EarthWat Sri SuphanWualai has been the silversmiths' quarter for five centuries. In 2004 they started re-skinning their temple's ordination hall in hand-beaten silver, and finished in 2016.Repousse silver, and men only insideWant toDone itNo thanks
