Chiang Mai International Airport
Chiang Mai International Airport is approximately 9 km from Ibis hotel. Airport taxi, or Grab taxi (the app should be available for both iOS/android) are recommended for traveling to the hotel/city centre. It should cost around 250 baht per trip.
The Ibis hotel
Ibis hotel is 6.4 km from Princess Sirindhon AstroPark. It is located between Chiang Mai University and Maya shopping centre.
CMU night markets: There are night markets near the entrances (Huay Kaew road/Suthep road) of Chiang Mai University. There you can find various kind of street foods and restaurants. Both markets are popular among university students.
Maya Shopping Centre: Many restaurants with local and international brands like KFC, Dairy Queen, etc. can be found here.
Nimmanhaemin Road: You can find various choices of restaurants and food carts along Nimmanhaemin road. The shops and restaurants are popular among both Thai and foreign tourists.
Novotel Chiang Mai
Novotel is the conference venue for 10th - 11th July. It is very close to ibis hotel, about 5-7 mins walk.
Princess Sirindhorn AstoPark, NARIT headquarters.
During the workshop, there will be shuttle vans taking participants between Ibis hotel and NARIT in the morning and afternoon. The guests who decide to book their own hotel can catch to the shuttle here, or call a Grab taxi for a ride to Princess Sirindhorn Astopark or you may show this sentence to the driver "ไปส่งที่สถาบันวิจัยดาราศาสตร์". The meeting venue is the Andromeda meeting room, inside the exhibition dome (exact location of the exhibition dome).
Place to go in Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is a 700 year old city. There are many historical sites such as buddhist temples, city gate, cannel etc. one can see within the old city wall.
Wat Chedi Laung: Huge 600 year old pagoda ruin
City gates and walls: The city is surrounded by the city walls and cannel. There were actually many layers of city walls, but only part of the most inner walls are what left to be seen.
Chiang Mai is also surrounded by mountains. The nearest mountain to the city (few kilometers from Ibis hotel) is Suthep mountain. On the mountain top lies Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, renowned for its stunning view and the golden pagoda, believed to contain buddha relics.
Thai National Radio Astronomy Observatory (TNRO)
The TNRO is a 40 m radio telescope, used for researches in radio astronomy and geodesy.
The TNRO is located inside Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Centre, which is a radio quiet zone, 40 km from NARIT headquarters.
