Kanlaya’s weather is typical of Thailand’s mountainous North West. The climate up here is sub-tropical, the terrain is mountainous, and the vegetation is deciduous rain forest. At an altitude of 2,500 feet, with peaks around rising to over 6,000 feet, we never experience the overwhelming heat and humidity of the coast and the lowlands.

• October – February, the winter climate is heavenly, dry, bright, sunny days rising to high 20s, chilly refreshing nights with blanket dews at night that water the orchids and ferns and wrap the valleys in downy mists until the morning sun bores through an hour after dawn.
• March and April are hot, dry and dusty and the drought adapted trees shed their leaves and though they then burst bare leaved into rainbow hued flower, best avoided.
• May – September, the Green or rainy season starts in May and lasts until September, dazzling greens, ferocious jungle growth, stupendous but short-lived electric storms that drop the temperature followed by dazzling sunlight. The intermittent deluge primes the rivers for world class white water kayaking and rafting.