Pong Duet Hot Spring Chiang Mai

Pong Duet Hot Spring Chiang Mai is a natural geothermal spring in the Mae Taeng district of Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand, set in the agricultural and forested landscape north of Chiang Mai city where the Mae Taeng valley is famous for its elephant sanctuaries, whitewater rafting on the Mae Taeng River, and the traditional farming communities of the hill tribe peoples whose villages dot the valley slopes between the lowland rice paddies and the forested highland ridges leading toward the Myanmar border. The spring emerges at notably high temperatures as a classic geyser-like jet of naturally heated water in a setting of tropical vegetation and mountain scenery characteristic of the northern Thailand highlands, where geothermal activity is associated with the fault systems of the same geological boundary zone that extends northward through the mountains of Myanmar and into the active volcanic arc of the eastern Himalayan region. The simple outdoor pools and natural stream soaking here offer an authentic, non-commercialized encounter with Thailand's geothermal resources in a district that balances growing ecotourism development with the traditional agricultural culture of the Mae Taeng valley's multi-ethnic highland communities.