Pick up from a hotel in Chiang Mai and drive about a half and an hour to Doi Inthanon National park, passing through various villages, rice fields and orchards.
Explore the summit, and visit to the visitor’s center Nature walk at Ang Ka nature trail near the summit. Here you will see tall trees cloaked in moss, fern, orchid and other epiphytes, especially “Sphagnum Moss” and Rhododendron.
Then go down to twin Royal Pagodas: Phra Mahathat Napha Methanidon and Phra Mahathat Naphaphon Bhumisiri for lunch. Afterward hiking on Kiew Mae Pan nature trail for about 3 hrs.
Finish hiking, drive down to visit Hmong Fruits & Flowers Market before check-in at Karen Ecolodge in the Karen terrace rice field. The remaining time will be your own leisure or you can hike to visit Karen Village (about a half an hour) to see their fruit & coffee orchards and observe their still primitive lifestyle.
Dinner and overnight in huts at the Karen Ecolodge or Nature Lodge in the Doi Inthanon National Park.