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Those who make a visit to Chiangmai should not miss the chance to go to the valley of winter flowers at Tung Jor where there are hundreds of thousands of winter flowers of various kinds and colors. The cultivation of these flowering plants in this area is under the Royal Hill-tribe Development Project of His Majesty the King. The main objectives of this project are to raise the standard of living of the hill-tribe people and to persuade them to produce other cash crops in place of opium. Here at Tung Jor, over the area of where in the old days opium was cultivated, one can see various kinds of flowering plants covering the whole area such as carnations, gladioluses, tulips, lady's slippers, orchids, and dahlia.