Chiang Mai - Butterfly and Orchid Farm

Between Tiger Kingdom and Mae Sa Elephant Camp are several smaller tourist places one can visit. I stopped at the Butterfly and Orchid Farm for a lovely look. Next to the entrance is a shop where they sell gold plated flowers made into brooches, earrings and necklaces. You will not find rare species of orchids here, nor is the butterfly farm very large. In fact, I could only find one kind of butterfly.



Yet, it was a nice place, saturated with color, in fact, almost all the colors of the rainbow:

red



orange



yellow




green (leaves)





blue (close enough)




indigo




violet



(mostly) white

But what really impressed me was how the orchids could grow so readily with their roots exposed.

with roots as green
as their leaves, orchids can grow
on ground or in air

Next Stop: The famous ruins of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia