Hilltribe Villages Chiang Mai

We had some great guides who gave us some really good advice along the way:

HOTELBEDS:
these guys are great-you can land in Bangkok and they will organise all of your tours/flights/transfers in a few hours! better than going through a travel agent in NZ, and they can speak directly to the tour guides and tailor make your tour, Thorn …

For me, Chiang Mai was the highlight of my trip for Thailand. It was the cheapest place and the most fun. The night bazzar was better and more affordable than Bangkok. As much as i enjoyed all of Thailand. Chiang Mai made it for me for a few reasons. Firstly, the resort we stayed at was beautiful and the staff were incredible, secondly it was the …

Jan 26th, Australia Day. Didn't realise that was even approaching. Lately I seem to have little idea what the day or date is altogether. I was aware it was January and that's about all. Ah, the joys of travelling. I should make the most of the day/date being completely irrelevant while i still can. Today Jude and I are off to thai cooking school …

Fresh and ready to go after some seriously needed rest, we walked over to the annual flower festival. Think Rose Parade but without the commercialism and fakeness(haha). We missed the float parade as it happened at 7am before we awoke, but we were able to catch the vendors. It's an all-day festival with local arts & crafts for sell along with …

NB - The river was too high for the Bangkok canal tour, so we headed off to check out the Grand Palace instead. Lauren, Nicole and I lost the others somewhere outside the palace walls thanks to some tuk tuk man trying to scam us by telling us the Palace was closed and that he could take us to a market for 20 Baht. We found out later than the others …

CHIANG MAI
Llegamos a Chiang Mai a las 10:30 pm. Teníamos una reserva en el Adventure Hotel para el día siguiente, llamamos para ver si tenían habitaciones disponibles esa noche pero nos dimos por vencidos ya que Nathan llamo dos veces al hotel y la recepcionista solo hablaba Thai y no entendía nada de Ingles. Como ese hotel estaba …

dag 10: Vandaag is het tijd voor het echte werk: een driedaagse trekkingtocht door de jungle, waar we kennis gaan maken met de mensen van de hill tribes. De groep waarmee we dit grapje gingen ondernemen bestond uit een italiaans koppel, een duits koppel, een nederlands koppel, twee Canadese meisjes en uiteraard wijzelf. 's Ochtends om 9 uur werden …

First, thanks for some of the great feedback and letting me know that us sharing our travel experiences with you is worthwhile; an experience like this one needs to be shared as it is being lived. Michele is still in amazement that it technically hasn't even been a week, but yet, we both feel as though we've accomplished so much with our time.... …

... to buy your own elephant dung souvenirs after the "grand tour" was over. From here we went to the first (of four) hilltribe villages. The most impressive were the Karen Longnecks & Big Ears (N felt right at home at the latter ones hehe). We also ...

... the mosquito net I didn't care about the rooster anymore cause the view was crazy. We had a 7 hours trekk ahead going by hilltribe villages, and crossing the river several times and getting my shoes really wet. On our way to the next village we stopped ...

... trip to Doi Ithanon National Park-this was great with its stunning waterfalls. We also spent some time visiting local Karen and Hmong hilltribe villages and the Royal family gardens, where we tried some fantastic local coffee. The city has a lot of cool ...

... .  In total we hiked for about  4 hours on the first day, mostly through the jungle but also through a few hilltribe villages including the village where Beh is from.  We ended our trekking in a large village where we stayed the night in a ...

... ; Last night I got the train to Chang Mai in the north of Thailand, and from here will book onto a trek into the hilltribe villages. Will be pretty touristy Im sure as this place is teeming with backpackers too. Good for the social life, bad for really ...

... Fah Waterfalls where we took a much needed wallow before starting our trek right into the heart of Northern Thailand, to visit the remote hilltribe villages. Here the lifestyle has changed little in hundreds of years. The Karen, Lahu and Lisu ...

... whole ordeal was going to be..and it came to the total of...6 pounds! Very good! We are now in Chiang Mai which is a base for treks to hilltribe villages and also to safaris and other such things so we're currently considering all the options, before we ...

... hide.   We arrived at the first village where we spent the night at a Karen tribe homestay.   The hilltribe villages are virtually all subsistence farmers.  The farm animals (chickens, cows, ducks and pigs – the large animals ...

... lately; he is only doing 3 hours a day. Groan... We set out on the trek which promised us a few visits to the local hilltribe villages and a night of camping under the stars in the jungle. The jungle part was a bit more authentic than I had in mind. ...

... their own.  Still, he was kinda embarrassed at the lady boy association.  We just laughed with him. The two hilltribe villages we stayed at were very similar.  They were cabin-like houses surrounded by farm animals and gardens.  They ...