Unmapped Gems
AttractionChiang MaiThailand

Baan Nok craft hamlet

4.7(158 on Google)
Price
Free
Best time
Weekday afternoons
Getting there
15 minutes by songthaew from the old town moat

Why it’s in the log

A handful of wooden houses around a pond, each one a workshop with a shopfront. Ceramics mostly, some indigo, one bookbinder, and a coffee cart that closes when the beans run out.

It is not a secret exactly — Chiang Mai locals come at weekends — but it is off the tourist loop by enough that a weekday afternoon is you, the potters, and the cicadas.