NORTHERN
THAILAND
A1
Day 2: Arrival in BANGKOK, and check in for the BANGKOK - CHIANGMAI flight. Welcome at the airport, transfer to Chiang Mai Gate hotel. After lunch, we visit WAT DOl SUTHEP, the temple with the 300 steps, city tour, dinner in siamese style restaurant.
Day 3: Visit handicraft village to see the silk works, umbrella, silver, lacquerware , etc... and shopping. Optional; In the evening a thérapeuthic massage at Rinkaew, one of the best in Thailand. Dinner in town, return to Chiang Mai Gate
Day 4:
Departure for the DOl SUTHEP, a look at a black MEO village, and continuing
to reach SAMOENG. After lunch we proceed by dirt track to MAE CHEM. Visit
traditional villages, rice fields, 
and
old houses. Dinner and overnight in Navasoung resort. (Total:230 km).
Day 5: A morning start on the road to MAE NAJON, followed by mountain tracks and deep forest. Crossing KAREN villages, with there traditional life style still in place. Lunchstop in a LISU village, after that continuing by a more difficult track, crossing rivers, meeting different tribal groups still isolated in their villages. Arriving late in MAE HONG SON . Dinner in town and spending the night in Mountain Inn hotel. (Total: 220 km).
Day 6: City
tour, discovering Burma style temples, climbing on the top of the hill, enjoying
the panorama on Burma. Lunch at the lake with the reflection of the
pagodas. Departure for BAN NAI SOY to visit the camp of Karen refugees
where you can see the LONG NECK hilltribe. Return to MAE HONG SON, for a walk in
the evening market. Dinner in town, overnight in the Mountain Inn hotel. (Total:
86 km)
Day 7: The journey begins by the road, then track to MAE LANA . Stop for lunch and visiting this THAI YAI village. Followed by mountain landscapes, forest, and LAHU villages. Arriving at Lod Cave, near SOPPONG. Here we visit the cave and we raft on the underground river. We proceed by road to PAl. Dinner in town, overnight in the Hut Ing Pai resort. (Total: 150 km).
Day 8: Departure for the trekking, crossing KAREN and LAHU villages, deep jungle tracks reaching WIANG HENG for the lunch time. After a while over a road under construction, a stop to visit a typical Chinese village at the top of a hill and then down to the CHIANG DAO valley. Continuing to THATON. Dinner and overnight at the Ban Suan Riverside. (Total: 210 km).
Day 9: Leaving Thaton passing Thai villages and typical rice fields. We stop at MAEa SALAK for the view, then by mountain tracks, passing hilltribe settlements and Chinese villages with their unspoiled customs; growing tea, lychees, and vegetables. Resuming the journey to the city of WAWEE. From here we start trekking in the jungle, enjoying waterfalls and bambooforest and still isolated YAO villages with their infamous opium fields (from Dec. to Fev.) Arrival in CHIANGRAI. Dinner in city, overnight in Ban Khun Yom. (Total: 135 km).
Day 10: You'll have first a boat trip on the MAE KOK river ( 1h) to the Karen village of RUAMIT. Then you'll enjoy an elephant ride in the jungle to a Yao village. After visiting the village you walk for about 40 min. to a waterfall where you can refresh . Return to CHIANGRAI, by local taxi, crossing traditional Thai villages. Dinner in town, overnight Ban Khun Yom hotel.
Day 11: Free time or you can visit Chiangrai with its colourful market. Evening transfer to the airport for the flight CHIANGRAI - BANGKOK and on to your international flight.
Day 12: Arrival in your country.
