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Day 1: Departure from your country.
Day 2: Arrival in BANGKOK, and check in for the BANGKOK - CHIANGRAI flight. Welcome at the airport, receive the motorbike and immediate departure for CHIANGMAI. lunch on the road. Check in at the Chiang Mai Gate Hotel, then we visit WAT DOl SUTHEP, the temple with the 300 steps, city tour, dinner in siamese style restaurant.
Day 3:
Departure for DOl SUTHEP, then a look at a black MEO village, and reaching
SAMOENG. After lunch we proceed by the track to MAE CHEM. Visit
traditional villages, rice fields, and old houses. Dinner and overnight in
Navasoung resort. (Total: 230 km).
Day 4: Start in the morning on the road to MAE NAJON, followed by mountain tracks and deep forest. Crossing KAREN villages, with there traditional life style still in place. Lunch stop 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 evening in MAE HONG SON . Dinner in town and spending the night in Mountain Inn hotel. (Total: 220 km).
Day 5:
Tr
ekking
through Karen and different ethnic villages. Lunch with the inhabitants and
continue by the mountain road. Arrival in PAI late afternoon . Dinner and
overnight at Muang Pai Resort. (Total : 150 km).
Day 6: On
the trek again crossing KAREN and LAHU villages, deep jungle tracks reaching
WIANG HENG for lunch time. A spell over a road under construction before
visiting a typical Chinese village at the top of a hill and then down to
the CHIANG DAO valley. Heading for THATON. Dinner and overnight at the Ban Suan
Riverside. (Total: 210 km).
Day 7: Leaving Thaton passing through Thai villages and typical rice fields. We stop at MAE SALAK for the view, then go on by mountain tracks, passing hilltribe settlements and Chinese villages with their unspoiled customs; growing tea, lychees, and vegetables. Onward 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 hotel. (Total: 135 km).
Day 8:
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. t
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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 9: Free time or you can visit CHIANGRAI with his colourful market. Evening transfer to the airport for the flight CHIANGRAI - BANGKOK and on to your international flight.
Day 10: Arrival in your country.
