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Travel Chiang Mai, travel, shop, and taste at Mae Kha Canal. A project to revive the murky canal, adding a chic Japanese style, has many benefits. It helps restore water sources, develop the community, and create new tourist attractions that the people of Chiang Mai can use for recreation, small businesses, and opening their homes as parking spaces for visitors. Along the canal, businesses can trade, so they are ready to make restaurants, cafes, and souvenir shops. Some outsiders may ask to rent space to open shops, which is another source of income.
Originally, Mae Kha Canal helped drain water from the Chiang Mai moat to the Ping River (via Loi Kroh Road). In the past, the community around Mae Kha Canal, Chiang Mai, was a slum. Because it was a community behind the earthen wall, the source of the girls' houses (outer city wall), the general condition was quite bad because it was hidden behind the earthen wall.
The Mae Kha Canal restoration project started in early 2017. The development of the historic canal, which is the outer moat of Chiang Mai, began. This is part of the plan to push Chiang Mai to become a World Heritage City. It is used as a selling point in tourism activities. In addition to the Mae Kha Canal area that has been developed, there are also projects to develop Mae Kha Canal in other areas as well, because Mae Kha Canal is a waterway that is quite long, starting from Jaeng Ku Heung all the way to the Ping River.
The highlights of Mae Kha Canal today probably have several things. The first is the check dam that is placed at several points along the canal, adding to the atmosphere of water diversion using natural materials in the ancient style. On both sides of the Mae Kha Canal, grass and ornamental plants are planted to add beauty. The canal itself is naturally winding because it is not a dug canal, so it has its own beauty, including the distinctive yellow bridge that tourists like to photograph. There are also simple graffiti along the canal, as well as souvenirs and delicious restaurants to choose from as well.
Traveling to Chiang Mai when PM 2.5 dust is down like this, don't be serious. If you come to visit once in a while, wear a mask to increase safety and you can travel comfortably. People who have traveled have returned, but the people of Chiang Mai will have to face dust and smog for a long time...
