Guided excursions, accompanied by Payap University staff members, occur throughout the semester and include visits to famous monasteries in the Chiang Mai area, hill tribe villages, and other sites of interest in the mountainous region of the north. Class-related work includes some day trips to nearby sites and overnight excursions to Bangkok (Spring semester) or Sukhothai, the former capital (Fall semester), and to a lowland and upland village in Northern Thailand.