Luang Nam Tha

Trip Start Dec 06, 2006
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Trip End Sep 2007


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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Luang Nam Tha- Its the low season now so when we arrived in Lunag Nam Tha with Todd and Kyla (Canadian couple who volunteered with us in Cambodia) it was really expensive to do any trekking or biking trips as the price decreases if there are more people. So we went out shamelessly hassling any foreigners we saw to join us on the 3 day forest trek the next day. Luckily we found two more people so the next day all 6 of us set of in a tuk tuk out to a Akha ethnic group village to pick up our local guides. The trek started well, it was quite hard walking but we took lots of breaks and we were going deeper into the national park so left all the heavily logged mountains behind. Lunch was served on huge banana leaves (see photo) and was really good local food, very strange to be eating with your hands from banana leaves! We arrived around 2pm at our hut which was to be our accommodation. Nobody had been there for a month and the mattresses were all piled up in a corner with the mosquito nets. second night's accommodation
second night's accommodation
 We went to set up the beds and found the mattresses were really smelly, damp, very old and full of holes and the same goes for the mosquite nets, not very welcoming. The worst was that the place was swarming with bees/wasps (still not sure which) so we had to quickly patch up the nets and sit under them. Going to the toilet was awful! The next day we trekked further through the forest and that was really beautiful. Luckily the hut that night was slightly better AND NO BEES, so we had a much better night there. The early morning trek the next morning wasn't great but the trek back out was stunning again. We stopped in an Akha village for lunch and were really pleased to be able to buy a coke at a shop nearby, after the first day we were given boiled water to drink but it was really smoky from being boiled on an open fire! Was a fun trek but three days roughing it like that was plenty...
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