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15 Shopping Tours in Chiang Mai the North Does Best

34 tours  ·  from $14 a head

Worth passing on to anyone landing at CNX this week: 15 shopping tours, each with the price, what the ticket covers and the single detail to check before paying.

Chiang Mai: Cooking Class, Market & Thai Herbs Garden Tour - The Garden Turns Ingredients Into a Meal
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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class, Market & Thai Herbs Garden Tour

1.Cooking Class, Market & Thai Herbs Garden Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 4,824 reviews · 3h 30m · from $31Our pick

Spend three and a half hours with a local Thai instructor, starting at a Chiang Mai market and continuing in an organic kitchen garden. Choose dishes to cook, pound curry paste with a mortar and pestle, and finish with mango sticky rice. Instructors include Wave, Tu, Flook, Kat, Balloon, Toey, and Mew.

“Everything was well organised, the market tour was great and Balloon, our guide and cook is great and fun”

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Chiang Mai: Authentic Cooking Class with Market & Farm Visit - Your own station, with help at every step
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Chiang Mai: Authentic Cooking Class with Market & Farm Visit

2.Authentic Cooking Class with Market & Farm Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 4,546 reviews · 210 minutes - 7 hours · from $34

Visit a Chiang Mai market, tour Grandma’s organic farm, then cook Thai favorites at your own station. Full-day classes add traditional coconut-milk making; instructors such as Kiki, Jimmie, and Patty lead sessions in English. Choose a morning, afternoon, evening, or full-day option.

“Would highly recommend this for anyone in Chiang Mai. One of the highlights of our honeymoon trip and the Khao Soi was the best!”

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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class with Market and Pickup - Choose dishes that suit your appetite
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Chiang Mai: Cooking Class with Market and Pickup

3.Cooking Class with Market and Pickup

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 1,365 reviews · 3h 30m · from $25

Visit a fresh market with an English-speaking instructor, then cook in a small group at Daddy’s Kitchen. You’ll get your own station and wok, choose dishes to prepare, and finish with mango sticky rice. Hotel pickup and drop-off, ingredients and a digital recipe book are included.

“Very fun and interesting cooking class. Cha Em was an amazing instructor, with great English and very funny too. We made four dishes each (7 between the two of us) so was really good for making and trying lots of new food. Would definitely recommend. In future, if I booked the morning slot again, I would not eat breakfast before as you eat your first meals at around 10:30.”

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Chiang Mai: Evening Cooking Class and Local Market Visit - Learn by cooking, then eat what you made
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Chiang Mai: Evening Cooking Class and Local Market Visit

4.Evening Cooking Class and Local Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 648 reviews · 5 hours · from $28

Join Galangal Cooking Studio for an evening Thai cooking class with central Chiang Mai hotel pickup. Browse a local market, see herbs growing in an organic garden, then choose dishes to prepare with an English-speaking instructor such as New or Aoy. Expect hands-on cooking, a shared meal, and recipes to take home.

“We booked the cooking class last week on the spur of the moment. The driver picked us up in a typical red truck. We went to a local market and our cook (New) was explained to us what the vegetables were that we were going to cook with and then we were able to have a short time to wander the market. We then went to the cooking school and it was fabulous. Learning how to make a green curry paste from scratch was amazing. All of our meals we cooked were amazing. We are looking forward to making these when we return home :) This is definitely the cooking…”

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Chiang Mai: Evening Local Street Food Market Tour - Try Northern Thai dishes alongside market favorites
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Chiang Mai: Evening Local Street Food Market Tour

5.Evening Local Street Food Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 604 reviews · 2h 30m · from $40

Meet a local guide such as Jay, Mr. Goal, or Chai, then visit at least two Chiang Mai evening markets in a group of no more than ten. Taste Northern Thai dishes, Kanom Jeen, stewed pork leg, coconut dumplings, and sweets, while learning food customs and useful Thai phrases. Hotel transfers within central Chiang Mai are included.

“Very funny and knowledgeable guide! Almost too much food :o))))) so make sure you come REALLY hungry! All of it super tasty and just delicious! Great experience!”

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Chiang Mai: Kalare Night Bazaar Boxing Stadium Muay Thai - What happens from the first ritual to the final bout
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Chiang Mai: Kalare Night Bazaar Boxing Stadium Muay Thai

6.Kalare Night Bazaar Boxing Stadium Muay Thai

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 507 reviews · 1 min · from $19

Spend an evening at Kalare Night Bazaar Boxing Stadium watching Muay Thai bouts and the traditional wai khru ram muay pre-fight ritual. Your ticket provides one seat. Shows run Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, usually from 9 to 11:30 p.m. The card can include young fighters, title bouts, and unusual matchups.

“It was great to watch real fights in action. They all started off fairly easy, but by round 4 or 5, the intensity really picked up. The setting isn’t the most comfortable, but it’s definitely worth the money.”

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Evening Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour - Make curry paste and six dishes yourself
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Evening Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour

7.Evening Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 394 reviews · from $29Top rated

Start at 3:30 pm with a 30-minute visit to Somphet Market, then head to a nearby farm for a four-hour cooking session. You’ll make curry paste and six dishes at your own station, with demonstrations of papaya salad and mango sticky rice. Chef Perm is named in one account of the class; round-trip hotel transfers are included.

“Ride was punctual and our guide/cook was amazing. There were jokes and laughs non stop. Everyone that was there with us trueky enjoyed themselves”

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Chiang Mai: Elephants, Sticky Waterfalls, Market and Temple - Climbing Bua Thong Sticky Waterfalls
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Chiang Mai: Elephants, Sticky Waterfalls, Market and Temple

8.Elephants, Sticky Waterfalls, Market and Temple

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 227 reviews · 450 - 510 minutes · from $70

Set out from Chiang Mai by van for a rural market, Bua Thong Sticky Waterfalls and the colorful Lanna temple Wat Ban Den, then visit an elephant sanctuary to prepare food, feed and bathe the animals. The small group is limited to nine, lunch and transfers are included, and guides such as Blue, Tu, Non, James and Tom have led the day.

“Our guide - James was really great, funny, helpful, talk and explain a lot of things in very interesting and passionate way. Sticky waterfall - amazing! It was so much fun. I had only one issue with this trip that elephant sanctuary was not totally ethical. You could touch, take a photos with animals. It is visible that their are trained to do some tricks for tourists.”

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Cooking Morning Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market - A cooked lunch, then recipes to take home
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Cooking Morning Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market

9.Cooking Morning Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 211 reviews · from $13Best value

Start with a guided visit to a local market, then learn about herbs and spices in Siam Garden Cooking School’s organic garden. Choose dishes across six menu categories and cook at your own wok, with guidance from English-speaking instructors such as Gift and Cream. Hotel pickup is offered from Chiang Mai Old Town.

“The perfect cooking class. Menus were personalized to each person's choices, but it didn't slow down the class. All of the staff were very knowledgeable, friendly and fun to be with. We all cooked 6 menu items and even got to see many of the ingredients in plant form in their garden. The visit to the market prior to the class was informative and very clean. I would highly recommend this class. It may not be as well known as some of the others, and I'm not sure why. It was excellent and fun.”

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Chiang Mai Temples and Market Tuk-Tuk Evening Night Tour - Wat Phra Singh: a first look at temple life
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Chiang Mai Temples and Market Tuk-Tuk Evening Night Tour

10.Chiang Mai Temples and Market Tuk-Tuk Evening Night Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 201 reviews · from $34

Start at 6:30 pm near Tha Phae Gate and ride by tuk-tuk to Chiang Mai temples, including Wat Phra Singh and Wat Chedi Luang. An English-speaking guide adds Buddhist and local context, then helps you sample street food at the Night Bazaar. The tour runs about four hours; temple entry fees are extra.

“This was a great tour. We love seeing cities by night and temples were glowing and so beautiful in the evening. Tuk tuks are by far the most efficient way to move about Chiang Mai and Jane was a wonderful guide. She was very knowledgeabRead more”

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Cooking Evening Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market - Six choices, one wok, and a very full table
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Cooking Evening Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market

11.Cooking Evening Class Chiang Mai Visit Organic Garden and Market

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 187 reviews · from $13

Spend an afternoon and evening exploring a Chiang Mai market and organic garden, then cook six dishes at Siam Garden Cooking School. Choose your own appetizer, curry paste, curry, stir-fry, soup, and dessert, with options for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and other dietary needs. Instructors such as Gift and Fonnie may lead the class.

“Lovely host Gift, fantastic food. Another amazing experience in Chiang mai. Would definitely recommend, only negative is felt like a long drive there. It would be good if you were told how long transfer is then know what you to expect. But would still do again. Fantastic family experience ❤️”

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Half-Day Cooking Class with Market Tour - Choose Your Dishes, Then Cook Them
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Half-Day Cooking Class with Market Tour

12.Half-Day Cooking Class with Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 163 reviews · 5 hours · from $36

Tom Yum Thai Cooking School pairs a market visit with a five-hour class in a home kitchen. Choose dishes such as Pad Thai, tom yum, papaya salad, and khao soi, then cook and eat them with an English-speaking instructor. Hotel pickup within 3 km of Chiang Mai Old Town, drinks, and a recipe book are included.

“It was 10/10, the chef/teacher was amazing and funny. Would definitely recommend. We had a great time cooking the dishes that we could choose beforehand and they tasted superb!”

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Morning Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour - What the five-hour schedule means for your day
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Morning Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour

13.Morning Cooking Class in Organic Farm with Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 157 reviews · from $29

Start at 8:30 am with a guided visit to Somphet Market, then head about 13 km outside Chiang Mai to The Best Thai Cookery School. You’ll learn about local ingredients, pick herbs and spices from the farm, and prepare several Thai dishes at your own station with a chef. Pickup is offered, and groups are limited to 10.

“Excellent experience, got some great tips in cooking and food prep as well. Definitely exceeded our expectations.”

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Morning Thai Cooking with Grandma - Market Visit & Farm Tour - A farm stop with more than a photo backdrop
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Morning Thai Cooking with Grandma – Market Visit & Farm Tour

14.Morning Thai Cooking with Grandma – Market Visit & Farm Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 148 reviews · from $38

Start at a Chiang Mai market, then visit Grandma’s farm to pick herbs and vegetables, collect eggs and meet the chickens. In an open-air kitchen, you’ll cook four Thai dishes at your own station, with an instructor guiding each step. Hotel pickup is offered within 5 km of the city center; mango sticky rice and a digital recipe e-book are included.

“Lovely way to spend a day. Come hungry! We're vegetarian and every single recipe was easily adapted. Stunning surroundings and cute chickens.”

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Chiang Mai: Traditional Thai Cooking Class with Market Tour - Cooking in a traditional Lanna home
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Chiang Mai: Traditional Thai Cooking Class with Market Tour

15.Traditional Thai Cooking Class with Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 137 reviews · 4 hours · from $32

Join an English-speaking chef in a traditional Lanna home near Chiang Mai Gate Market. Hotel pickup and a market visit lead into a hands-on class covering six Thai dishes, homemade curry paste, and sticky rice with mango. Instructors have included Tu, Flook, Wave, and Balloon, though your chef may differ.

“The Cooking Class was great. It was straight forward and I learned a lot about cooking Thai Dishes. Our teacher/chef Mew was so fun and was so polite. I would recommend this to everyone.”

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