2 Best Hotels in The Mae Hong Son Loop, Northern Thailand

The brook babbles right outside your cabin window if you ask for a room with a view at this little resort. The cabins are tiny but clean; two villas, also timber-built, are more spacious. Accommodations at the water's edge have terraces where you can soak up the uninterrupted view of sugar cane fields and the mountains beyond.

The chatter of gibbons wakes you up at this remote mountain lodge between Pai and Mae Hong Son. The cave after which it is named, just a short walk from the lodge, is one of the region's most spectacular caverns, with wall paintings and prehistoric coffins. The Australian owner of the lodge organizes treks and river tours in the surrounding jungle.