Chiang Mai Sunrise Monk Almsgiving and Morning Market Walking Tour
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Meals included
- Experience Chiang Mai's morning rituals as you give offerings to monks and discover how locals start their day around Pratu Chiang Mai market.
- Meet your English-speaking local guide in a small group and set off before breakfast, with bottled water and insurance included throughout.
- Use a prepared alms-giving set as you join monks on their real morning round, then follow your guide through the lanes of Pratu Chiang Mai market.
- Sit down to a northern breakfast tasting at the market, with sticky rice, sai ua, khanom jeen nam ngiao and local coffee shared by your guide.
- Small-group tour
- Expert English-speaking guide
- Bottled drinking water
- Insurance
- Traditional alms-giving set for offering
- Local breakfast tasting
- Additional food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.
Join a small-group sunrise walk in Chiang Mai to give alms to monks, then explore Pratu Chiang Mai market over a northern Thai breakfast.
Getting started
Meet your expert English-speaking guide at the designated starting point before sunrise, then join your small-group tour as the city begins to wake up. After a short introduction to local etiquette and the almsgiving ritual, you receive your traditional alms-giving set for offering. With bottled drinking water provided, you set off on foot toward the monks’ real morning round.
What to expect
Sunrise almsgiving
Begin your morning by observing and taking part in a real almsgiving round, a daily ritual that shapes Chiang Mai’s early hours.
Features
- With respectful guidance from your English-speaking local guide, you learn how to give alms to monks on their real morning round, from how to stand to how to present your offerings.
- A traditional alms-giving set for offering is provided, so you do not need to prepare anything in advance or worry about choosing appropriate items.
- This is a small-group tour, which keeps the interaction calm and allows time for your guide to explain meanings and answer questions about the practice.
- Bottled drinking water and insurance are included, so you can focus on the ceremony and the walk without handling practicalities during the early start.
Pratu Chiang Mai market
After the ritual, your guide leads you to Pratu Chiang Mai market, a busy local hub where residents shop and eat breakfast.
Features
- Explore Pratu Chiang Mai market the way locals do, walking between fresh produce, prepared food, and snack stalls as your guide points out what people buy for their own morning meals.
- Taste a northern breakfast that can include sticky rice, sai ua, khanom jeen nam ngiao, and local coffee, giving you a clear sense of regional flavors and textures at the start of the day.
- A local breakfast tasting is included in your tour, and your guide helps you navigate what you are trying so you can connect specific dishes with their names and ingredients.
Additional information
- Group size: This experience runs as a small-group tour for a more personal market and almsgiving walk.
- Guide language: An expert English-speaking local guide will lead the experience and share cultural context.
- Meals: A local breakfast tasting is included, and any additional food or drinks will be at your own expense.
- Transfers: Hotel pickup and drop-off are not provided, so you must make your own way to the meeting point.
- Personal expenses: Personal purchases at the market and tips for your guide are not included in the tour.
- Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
- Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
- Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
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