One idea, held for five days, then released on the sixth evening.
How the Journey Unfolds
I
Temple — Chiang Rai
Two temples, ten minutes and a lifetime apart.
II
Tea — Mae Salong
A cabin inside the plantation, two kilometres above a village that came from Yunnan in 1961.
III
Coffee — Doi Chang
Fifteen hundred metres, a valley that performs twice a day.
IV
Rice — Mae Taeng
Lunch beside the fields, then six hundred feet above them. In the morning, an elephant is walked to the door.
V
Sky — Chiang Mai
Ten thousand lanterns leaving the ground at once.
8Days
5Landscapes
1Private Self-Drive
The Climax
Eight days that climb, and one evening they climb towards.
The Designer's Note
Three decisions were made on the client's behalf: the evening comes first, the week is built backward from it, and the afternoon before it is left deliberately empty — the most expensive decision in the itinerary.
Closing Act
The city holds the last two nights on purpose — one for the sky, one for nothing at all.