Mountains
Mala Dhara
Earthen villas among rice fields
setting
Mountains
where
Doi Saket, Chiang Mai, Thailand
best season
November to February is cool and clear in no…
ideal for
Yoga Retreat
( the feeling of it )
Buildings shaped by hand out of earth, curving where concrete would be square. Thirty minutes from an international airport.
( the story )
An adobe eco-village among the rice fields of Doi Saket, thirty minutes from Chiang Mai, with a saltwater pool, an organic farm and a plant-based kitchen.
( field notes, dawn to night )
A day here
early
The shala, cool air off the rice fields, mist sitting in the paddies below.
mid-morning
Kin Dee's breakfast, entirely plant-based, and better than that sentence suggests.
afternoon
The saltwater pool, or ten minutes down the road to soak in the hot springs.
evening
Earth walls giving back the day's heat, geckos on them, the fields going dark.
( worth underlining )
What sets it apart
What you can do
On the property
( plan your stay )
A week in a building made of the ground it stands on quietly rearranges what you think a room should be.
Come and live in the earth.
best time to visit — November to February is cool and clear in northern Thailand — the best months before the hot season arrives in March.
( keep wandering )
