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Baan Kamlangchay is a home for demented patients from German-speaking countries, located in the village of Faham near Chiang Mai, Thailand. It has been the subject of press and TV coverage in Germany and Switzerland because of its novel model. [1] The home was founded in 2004 and is operated by the Swiss Martin Woodtli and his Thai wife.
Chiang Mai [a] is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in Thailand. It is 700 km (435 mi) north of Bangkok in a mountainous region called the Thai highlands and has a population of 1.2 million people as of 2022, which is more than 66 percent of the total population of Chiang Mai province (1.8 million).
As the phrase "Thai stilt house" suggests, one universal aspect of Thailand's traditional architecture is the elevation of its buildings on stilts, most commonly to around head height. The houses were raised due to heavy flooding during certain parts of the year, and in more ancient times, predators.
Phrao (Thai: พร้าว, pronounced; Northern Thai: ป๊าว, pronounced) is a district in the north-eastern part of Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand. Its major town, Phrao, lies 107 km north-northeast of Chiang Mai. The meaning of Phrao in English is 'coconut'.
Chai Prakan (Thai: ไชยปราการ, pronounced [tɕʰāj prāː.kāːn]; Northern Thai: ไจยผาก๋าร, pronounced [tɕāj pʰǎː.kǎːn]) is a district in the northern part of Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand.
The village is located within Doi Suthep–Pui National Park and is frequently visited by both domestic and international tourists. It is particularly known for the groves of Prunus cerasoides (wild Himalayan cherry) trees planted at the Khun Chang Kian Highland Agricultural Research and Training Station of Chiang Mai University, which attract numerous visitors as they come into bloom each ...
Half the waste is reprocessed as fertiliser, wood pellets, and animal feed, but the other half is burned in the open, contributing to Chiang Mai's spring air pollution; finally, due to the district's high elevation upstream of the Ping River, sediment from soil erosion has drifted down 272 kilometres to Bhumibol Dam— Thailand's largest ...
The district is divided into six sub-districts (), which are further subdivided into 95 villages ().Omkoi is a sub-district municipality (thesaban tambon) which covers parts of the tambon Omkoi.