After leaving Km 34.5 we kept driving up the mountain past the temple to the summit which has a nice visitor’s centre.

There’s a small museum with some educational displays of birds.  If you come here on a tour from Chiang Mai, you will be taken here.

There’s a nice cafe with good coffee and a place to sit and watch birds visit the feeders.  Finally some close-up shots!

There is a snack bar for cakes and drinks.

Here is a souvenir shop with the usual postcards and tourist stuff. Beware of the hilltribe hairbands.  I bought a small pony-tail sized one and the colours ran on my shirt!

Blue Whistlingthrush

Elusive River Chat

Boardwalk behind the visitor centre

Dark-backed Sibia

Blue Whistlingthrush

Chestnut-tailed Minla

Across the road from the visitor centre is this nature trail, also on boardwalks.

Dark-backed Sibia

I have no idea what this means but it’s a cute little statue!

The highly sought-after and extremely fast Green-tailed Sunbird!

Local transport