Almost Missed Our Green Bus Ride to Chiang Rai at the Chiang Mia Bus Terminal, Thailand!

After staying in the Old City of Chiang Mia, Thailand for a week and enjoying what this lovely city has to offer, we were ready to explore another part of Thailand. Our friend from Canada suggested Chiang Rai, a smaller city, not too far away from where we were. Listening to sound advice and suggestions, that was exactly what we did. We went online and purchased two bus tickets going from Chiang Mia to Chiang Rai at 350 Baht - about Can.$18.00, one way for each person, very affordable indeed! We purchased our tickets online yesterday for the two of us at 367 Bhat one way.

Det, our new Thai friend we made in Chiang Mai volunteered to drive us to the bus terminal. We left out hotel at 10a.m. for our bus at 11a.m. Det told us we made a good choice of time for our departure as the rush hour was over. He aid if we had travelled during the morning rush hour, it would have been extremely congested with students going to school and people going to work.

Our ride to the bus terminal was smooth and only took about 20 minutes from our hotel in the old city.

With our ticket confirmation in our email, it was easy getting the info and confirmation of the bus leaving for Chiang Rai.The ticket officer told us to go to platform 21 and that was what we did. It was only 1030a.m. we found platform 21 and parked ourselves on one of the benches and started checking our cell groups for messages and photo etc. It was around 10;50a.m. no bus arrived at platform 21 yet. I looked over at platform 19, thee were people getting on the bus. Just to be on the safe side, I went over to check, it was our bus heading to Chiang Rai!

Thank goodness! I checked otherwise it would be exactly like the time when we missed our fast train in China where  we waited at the wrong platform. But this time we were waiting at the right platform but the bus was boarding passengers at another platform. We have learned our lesson – always double check we are at the correct spot when we are waiting for plane, train or bus on our travels.

RT, Chiang Mai Bus Terminal, Chiang Mia, Thailand, 2025