The road from Lampang to Chiang Mai (at least for 15 km) is lined with these stately trees, each wrapped with orange fabric, making them sacred and safe from removal.
Apparently some people would like to widen the road, but The King was not happy with the idea, so they are still there.
One story is that the rulers of the region in the late 1800s were inspired by Napoleon, who planted plane trees for shade for his soldiers along the roadsides of France, to plant these trees along the roads leading out from Chiang Mai.
These are Yaaang Naa trees, that produce resin and some produce a poison sap - handy for arrow tips!
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