Chiang Mai holidays photo copyrighted by: Alan Ingram Chiang Mai owes her existence to the Ping River. The river provided the route along which the power of the city could be extended beyond the wall of mountains that surrounded the valley; it was a channel for trade from China and Burma to the Gulf of Siam. The wide, fertile valley was able to support a large number of people, the basis of political power in the feudal kingdom of Lanna (the million fields).
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