If you take the road from Chiang Mai to Mae Wang and follow the road to Moo ban Mae Sa Pok you will drive through a great area also for families there is enough to do. Elephant Camps and Bamboo rafting are along the mountanious road and there are a lot of restaurants aside the road and for those people who love to to do a medication course you are on the right spot.
Wat Tham Doi Ton has a Vipassana Meditation Course I, a course at the Dhamma practice center at Wat Tham Doi Ton. Regularly every month continues throughout the year.
The reason for the establishment of the temple
Due to the condition of the village, Village No. 5, Ban Mae Sa Pok, Mae Win Subdistrict, Mae Wang District, Chiang Mai Province before the cave temple was built. Originally, there was a place to perform charity for the villagers. Characteristic of the Hermitage Or accommodation for the monks that the agency of the monk's pilgrimage has created When the condition of the village developed to a certain point The missionary agency moved out to a more deserted area. The condition of the monk's accommodation becomes an abandoned ashram, no monks are always there. Is only the residence of the pilgrimage that passes by And the most important thing is the monk's residence It is located in a reserved forest without any license. Therefore unable to build a temple that is correct according to the ministerial regulations The villagers therefore had to find a new place that had the right document to build the temple. Which is the land where Wat Tham Doi Ton is located today.
At the bottom of the cliff is a large cave used for meditation while up on the hill top is a pagoda housing Buddha relics. The mountain range gradually slopes down in eastern and southerly directions.
To the west, you can see a terraced rice field. A short walk across the field brings you to the point where The Mae Wang and Mae Sapok rivers converge.
The monastery is six hundred meters above sea level, and is one kilometer from the nearest village. It is eighteen kilometers from the Mae Wang District Office and fifty five kilometers southwest of Chiang Mai city. There is a Karen hill tribe village on a small hill to the west of the temple.
The cache is a magnetic round box with a diameter of 45 mm with logbook take a pen or pencil with you!