All and all, this was an amazing experience. We travelled into the hills of Chiang Mai with our ADHD travel guide "Bat" (pronounced But) for a fun filled 2 day trex. We had 6 other people people with us, 2 girls from Scotland and Ireland, 2 french dudes, and 2 guys from thailand.
Our trip started with a 2 hour drive to a waterfall, which we had the opportunity to go for a little dip. Of course the fab 4 jumped into their bathing suits and timidly tiptoed into the luxury freshwater. But before long we were all jumping around splashing each other like little kids.
Then we moved onto the start of our trex. The scenery was amazing. Our guide gave some of us responsibilities, i was rewarded with a leaf hat and named team leader (mike) which i was so very overwhelmed, with such a prestiges rank within the group. This was also the time that we realised that our guide "Bat" may have had a little thing for Anna.
Our trip started with a 2 hour drive to a waterfall, which we had the opportunity to go for a little dip. Of course the fab 4 jumped into their bathing suits and timidly tiptoed into the luxury freshwater. But before long we were all jumping around splashing each other like little kids.
Then we moved onto the start of our trex. The scenery was amazing. Our guide gave some of us responsibilities, i was rewarded with a leaf hat and named team leader (mike) which i was so very overwhelmed, with such a prestiges rank within the group. This was also the time that we realised that our guide "Bat" may have had a little thing for Anna.
When we arrived out our first stop and our first Village, we continued with our extreme fizzy intake and bought a round of drinks. You could buy anything at this villages. W walked for about 4 hours and arrived at the village in the dark after crossing a couple of dodgy bamboo bridges.Our guide, with the help of clemmie cooked the most amazing range of Thai dishes. We gobbled them up and were completly satisfied . The night was very relaxing with the thai boys showing us some card games and then breaking out the guiter for some songs around the good old classic campfire.
Unfortunatly that was when the relaxing stopped as one of the French dudes had a snoring problem which kept the entire hillside awake. We woke after never really been asleep except for Tessa who woke up nice and perky and clearly had a few more hours than the rest of hours.
We left early in the morning and walked for an hour to the next village where we were to start our Elephant riding. The 4 of us were on 2 elephants the were tied together. We were also lucky enough to also be accompanied by the little baby elephant. We travelled down the river for about hour and half. It was all very relaxing with sights we will never forget.
When we finally made it to our next village, it was time for some "Bamboo Rafting" this is where things got a little hairy for the raft that Tessa and I were on. There was a moment when i was trying to control the back of the raft and managed to get my bamboo stick stuck between 2 rocks. A normal person would have let go but i didn't, MAN OVERBOARD. We hit numerous rocks Tessa Hit her leg and While all this was happening Anna and Clemmie had a very relaxing time with absolutly no problems.
That was the last of our trip, so it wasw the long trip back to Chiang MAi. Our guide gave us his number and wanted to hit the town, but we had to say we were far to tired.
It was an amazing trip and we wished that we had done the 4 day.
MIKE
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