Chiang Mai is buzzing! Amidst glorious cool weather, a number of locals and visitors are streaming into the sexily named Provincial Administrative Organisation Park for “The Enchantment of Chiang Mai: City of Beautiful Flowers 2025”, where literally millions of blooms are showing off in full technicolour glory.
Travellers have flocked in from Bangkok and beyond to catch the riot of colour: lilies, blue sunvias, margarets, verbenas, cosmos — basically every Instagrammable flower known to humankind — plus rare Thai orchids that even your green-fingered granny probably hasn’t seen.
But the real show-stopper? A vast rainbow sea of tulips — reds, yellows, oranges, pinks, whites, purples — over 20,000 of them planted in layered rows so perfect you’d think someone arranged them with a ruler. It’s the sort of place where you pop in “just for a quick look” and accidentally take 200 photos.
And if the daytime display isn’t enough, the evenings are turning downright magical. A full-on water-and-light extravaganza kicks off nightly with music, lasers, colour, fireworks and sparkly effects —four shows a night at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm. Add to that the largest illuminated garden in the country glittering under the night sky, and you’ve got yourself one seriously dreamy winter outing.
Running from now until the 4th January 2026, the festival is now one of the city’s key winter landmarks. Organisers estimate nearly 10 million visitors over its eight-week run — and judging by the traffic on the way there, we believe it.
