BaanBooLOo Village was built with the highest regard for the environment and nature within Thailand’s second largest city as well as respect and longing to preserve the traditional Thai way of life.
The house itself is open air in many aspects and follows ancient methods for capitalising on natural ventilation etc.
The roofs of each house benefit from the normal north-south airflow.
We live in the shade of many trees like in a city jungle.
Outside our little the city oasis it can get very dry and hot; as modern city life claims more and more inches of nature.
Get back to basics and let your body breathe naturally.
BaanBooLOo is designed to get as much fresh air dynamically throughout uppers rooms to avoid the need for air conditioning - even in Summer time!
All bedrooms are air conditioned rooms for with alternative fans and windows that open to fresh air for those who prefer natural ventilation, when it is not too hot.
The latter is better for your health, skin and lungs as well as better for the environment.
BaanBooLOo Village was built with around 95% reclaimed teak and timbers. The original house with its original timbers was dismantled and rebuilt in 2007 and opened to the public officially in 2009 when it first appeared on TripAdvisor and Booking.com.
Incidentally, we recommend you chat with Adisak, Jeab or Pin to help find the ideal room(s) for your stay.
Our friendly and knowledgeable team will happily lend suggestions as to when are the best times to visit ( or to avoid ) Chiang Mai, especially if you are looking for festivals and those times of the year when pollution can be an issue.
The large house which forms reception is approximately 150 years or more old. It was moved from paddy fields in Lamphun area and brought to BaanBooLOo Village just a few years ago.
Preserving old wood is a labour of love.
We are maintaining the structure on an-going basis as the temperature and humidity varies tremendously throughout the year.
In addition, all products used are environmentally friendly such as 100% cotton bed linen and curtains - all sourced locally and made with natural dyes.
Hopefully you will get to try some edible blossom and leaf dishes from our gardens or a multitude of fresh produce from our own organic farm during your stay
If you get chance and your schedule is not too tight, why not learn about the marvels of fresh Thai herbs in your diet here.
Go the whole way and try one of our in-house private cooking classes.
Details on www.dotcookthai.com. There is a 20% discount for BaanBooLOo guests.
NEW: UNIQUE TOUR/STAY NEAR SALUANG/MAE RIM at a the homes of some of our friends.
Finally, for those guests at BaanBooLOo Village who would like to venture approximaltey 1 hour out of the city into our friends’ little idyllic mountainside escape
Ask to learn about our unique private tour to Huay Som Suk, just north of Mae Rim. Small, 200 residents, lots of rice fields and fruit farms, a little heaven for those who love nature.
We almost want to keep this place secret. We just hope that it does not lose its charming and natural lifestyle.
This is strictly a tour for BaanBooLOo guests, family and friends.
We regret we are not able to provide this to non-BaanBooLOo guests.
The trip can be customised to suit.
Prices will vary according to the number of visitors and activities included.
Activities recommended :
Cooking at home with P Big - Big is a master cook who can conjure up a plethora of local and regional dishes. He grows much of his own produce. There are ducks and hens roaming around the paradisaical landscaped gardens, next to a stream with hammocks, before enjoying a wonderful home made Thai dinner together in an extremely beautiful and exotic setting. You can also get a traditional Thai massage by a local lady with years of experience treating hard working rice farmers, right there on a small Thai style pavilion over looking the stream. You can cool off in the 7 meter pool nearby and enjoy a chilled beer with views of the sunset before a candlelit dinner. A superb evening when the whether is just right. It can be cooler up in the hills of this part of the world; do not be surprised if you need a pullover or blanket to wrap around in the evening and you find yourself sitting around a camp fire or stove. The nights can be magical, when the skies can be very serene and star gazing is a must.
Trekking through the forest, an area of outstanding beauty with P Eugene. On the same trip we recommend visiting a stunning Karen Tribe village, completely natural and unspoiled by tourism. Watch a local weaving exhibition whilst villages sit and weave nearby with views to their traditional bamboo huts and wooden houses in pristine condition. This is in a valley with fabulous views to terrace paddy fields topped by unspoiled wild forest. Opportunity to purchase outstanding quality woven products. More importantly, this village style ‘factory’ will even make Karen style bags, scarves, shirts and dresses to order. Incredible designs which may take from 2 or 3 days up to 3 or 4 months to make. A wonderful, humbling experience.
Visiting local strawberry and orange farms plus tea and coffee plantations and cottage factory. Visit the most prestigious and imposing temple in the area higher up into the hills. Wat Pra Bathubat Si Roi.
We highly recommend this trip. A one-day trip is great. For full relaxation, 2 or 3 days would be even better.
It is very non-commercial and is in a part of outer Chiang Mai that is virtually undiscovered. We would like to keep it that way and therefore suggest trips of up to 6 people.
There is an evolving home stay happening there, where accommodation is offered by one or more families. Because there are no large hotels or guest houses, groups may need to be split among 1 or 2 properties, but no worries they are all in very close walking distance. Moreover, this tiny village has the most divine communal spirit. Unimaginable in this day and age.
You only need to arrive and enjoy a bowl of steaming hot noodle soup at Mae Luang’s ( the sheriff’s wife ) whose ramshackle wooden stilts restaurant quirkily juts out onto a small river, straw roofs, a sink made out of part of a large craggy tree trunk naturally split open with a piece of knotty wood with a rudimentary tap leading the water flow to your hands; over grown trees and the radio quietly humming Thai songs to tips you to falling in love with this place on arrival.
There will be full details of this special tour coming soon. For those planning a trip to BaanBooLOo in the near future, the above is something to whet your appetite.
