Refreshing and swimming at Mokfa Waterfalls and Pong Duat Hot Spring.
Spend your time with elephants; enjoy the opportunity to feed and bathing the elephants in the river at Elephant Camp.
Enjoy other activities such as: cooking, camp fire and bamboo rafting experience.
Exploring through the jungle, visit a few tribe villages; you might be able to meet the local children who take you around as a village tour, see snails, fish traps…
DAY 1: CHIANG MAI – TREKKING TO KAREN VILLAGE (-/L/D)
DAY 2: LAHU VILLAGE – CHIANG MAI (B/L/-)
DAY 1: CHIANG MAI – TREKKING TO KAREN VILLAGE (-/L/D)
Hotel pick-up from Chiang Mai and drive 1 hour to visit a picturesque Mork-fa Waterfall. Located 60 km away from Chiang Mai, surround by lush green trees and nature trail, this water fall is a perfect stop where you can swim and cool off.
Spend 1 hour here before moving to the next stop, Pong Duat Hot Spring.
Enjoy your journey to the biggest Geyser hot spring in Thailand.
Have lunch and refreshing yourself by swimming.
In the afternoon, you will be trekking through the jungle for 3 hours until reaching Karen Tribe Village. The best countryside village overlooks by mountains and fields.
In the evening, experience this wonderful hill tribe community with their life styles, cooking style and have dinner.
After that, join in camp fire activities and spend your night in one of the host families for a real homestay experience at the Karen hill tribe village.
DAY 2: LAHU VILLAGE – CHIANG MAI (B/L/-)
Enjoy your lovely breakfast at the homestay.
Start your trekking trail in the jungle for one and half hour, trekking through the forest and then, experience 30 minutes bamboo rafting to reach the Elephant Camp.
Upon arrival, take a walk through the mountains, explore the pure nature and visit elephants. You will be able to feed them, walk with them and especially bathe them. Spend your time play with them in the river and take some good photos with happy elephants. You will get to know how the elephant keepers (mahout) are gentle and well taken care and also catching the enjoying moments of elephants.
After that, take a bamboo raft downstream to Lahu Trible Village, a relaxing way and enjoy breathtaking scenery while you are rafting along the river.
Along the narrow bamboo raft, you will stop at Lahu Village, discover the river tribe village.
Your lunch is served at the village.
In the afternoon, the bamboo raft floats down the river for 2 hours to Shan Village and admire the great sights for bamboo rafting.
Upon arrival at the village, meet the local people and spend your time for a deeper understanding about the villager’s life and culture.
Hop on the car at the end of the day and return to Chiang Mai.
18:00 Arrive Chiang Mai and tour ends.
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