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Directions to the farm:
In this article you will find directions from Chiang Mai by public transportation, directions for driving yourself and directions from Pai. The Panya Project used to be called the Baan Thai Project several years ago.
Coming from Chiang Mai:
Here are the Directions if you are in Chiang Mai and you want to catch a truck (bus) to the farm:
This bus leaves at 12:00 noon, everyday except Sundays. It also returns from the farm every morning at 6:00 to 7:00am except Sundays (as long as we call him and tell him to pick us up!)
Catch a red truck (song-tao) to Wararot Market (in Chiang Mai).
Walk to the river that is next to the market.
When you are facing the river, take a left and walk up the road about 100 meters.
At this point you will see a TOT phone booth sitting next to a parking area for pick-up trucks. Take a left down the alley on the far side of the parking area. Look up and see a sign on top of the building that says Narkorn Ping Bazzar. You are in the right spot. (If you hit the Red Cross building, you have gone too far, missed the left turn.)
Then, down that alley about 50-100 meters you will find a white truck that is slightly bigger than most of the others. Here is a photo of it:
On a window of that truck is a sign that says: Jon Jandai’s Farm: Pun Pun and Panya Project.
This is your truck. It is usually full of all sorts of stuff and they will squeeze even more in on your way to the farm.
Occasionally this truck driver does not run and his brother takes his place in a different truck. If you don’t see the truck from the photo above, ask the other truck drivers, “Panya Project? Pun Pun?”. Hopefully one of them will make it clear that he is your man.
THE TRUCK LEAVES AT NOON!!
The truck is usually full of food to supply the markets in the villages on the way, the trip takes about 2 hours, depending on the deliveries… you will stop in village markets where you will take breaks and eventually get some lunch.
Tell the truck driver you want to go to Panya Project or Pun Pun.
You will ride the truck all the way to the last stop. It takes 2-2.5 hours, with many stops at markets for loading and unloading (kind of interesting). Help unload, they appreciate it and it goes faster.
As you leave the main road and go up into the hills, you can enjoy the view of beautiful and relatively authentic landscapes and villages… 
At the last stop the truck driver will stop to let you out. (The only farangs/gringos that ride this truck are going to the farm). The ride costs 50 baht ($1.25).
If you are going to the Panya Project, the truck will let you off at the top of a dirt road. It has a sign that says “Panya Project.” Follow that road for about 750 meters and you will find a big open air building that is the center of the project.
Or if you are going to Pun Pun, you will be let off a little farther up the road.
To the right will be a field of crops, with a path down it and beyond that some buildings on the hill.
- Driving to the Farm:
Drive on Hwy 107 (Chiang Mai – Mae Rim Rd) out of Chiang Mai. About 40 km north is Mae Taeng.
Turn Right about 3-5 km north of Mae Taeng, on the road toward the Mae Ngat Dam. It is the second stop light after Mae Ma Lai.
This will take you up a hill and back down the other side. Keep going past the gold framed life-sized portraits of the King that are on the right-hand side of the road.
Turn Left in 5.6 km, just as the road starts to ease left. This is quite a large turnoff with another gold framed life-sized portrait of the King on the left-hand side of the road.
Stay left at Y in 3.7 km.
Go straight through the stop sign in about 1 km, past the market.
In 0.3 km turn right at the first giant tree (empty lot on right).
You should then pass over a bridge in about 100 meters.
After 0.8 km, turn left at T (temple on the right).
Stay on this road until you get to a right turn, with a disused school yard on the corner. Take this right.
Go another 2 km and you will find Moo Bahn Mae Jo.
If you are going to the Panya Project, look for a sign that says “Panya Project,” just as you start to see the first houses of Moo Baan Mae Jo. The sign will be on the right.
Turn right down the dirt road and watch out for mud (if it is the rainy season)!
If you are going to Pun Pun:
Go another 2 km or so, past the houses of the village and just as you are getting out of them there will be a small dirt road with a sign that says Pun Pun. Turn right here. Follow to the end. Wander until you find someone!
Coming from Pai:
Take a bus (or minibus or hitch or whatever) east to the main road to Chiang Mai (Hwy 107) at Mae Ma Lai.
Take a white song-tao north (left) up the road.
Go through Mae Taeng and maybe 3 km north get off at the big road to the right that goes to Mae Ngat Dam. Keep a lookout for it—it is the first big road past Mae Taeng. The song-tao stops at a motorbike taxi place almost directly across from the turn-off and the song-tao turns around and queues right after this stop, so you won’t go far if you miss the stop.
Take a motorbike taxi to Panya.
Tell them you want to go to the Panya Project.
They have sidecars and charge ฿140 for 1 person, ฿160 for 2 people and ฿200 for 3.
They know where to go and should drop you off right at the sala (our front door) or on the main road – just follow the sign and walk the remaining 750m Panya.
Good luck, and Godspeed!
