Wiang Fang

Wiang Fang is an old walled town in a valley among the mountains north of Chiang Mai. According to the Yonok chronicle, its origins reach back to the early northern Tai rulers. In the thirteenth century Mangrai made Fang one of his bases while consolidating the surrounding towns, before his conquest of Hariphunchai and the founding of Chiang Mai. Its valley lay within the northern approaches to the kingdom that became known as Lan Na.