We did a 2 day, 1 night overnight jungle trek with Chiang Mai Trekking with Piroon in northern Thailand and are sharing all the details on how to prepare, what to expect and what you’ll see along the way.

They offer: 3 day/2 night, 2 day/1 night, & daytrips. We decided to do the 2 day/1 night option because we didn’t want to have a large backpacking backpack and wanted to be able to fit everything in a normal size backpack. We picked our dates and placed a deposit of 1000 baht, the rest is paid in cash the day before in person.

Supplies you’ll need:

• Backpack – this is a collapsible, lightweight backpack that was perfect for the trek, just make sure to do a mock pack before you leave for your trip and make sure it all fits 
• Sleeping bag (we did not bring due to space but would have been warmer) 
• Hiking shoes 
• Jacket/sweater (fleece)
• Sandals– these are perfect while you are in the village and also great for the rafting adventure
• Hat 
• Toiletries- pack baby wipes, toilet paper, & she wee
• Towel – quick dry towel 
• Bathing suit 
• Flashlight 
• Insect repellent – our go to insect repellent that never lets us down

We stayed at Away Chiang Mai Resort before and after the trek and we were able to leave our luggage at the hotel while we were away.

Download our 5 day Chiang Mai itinerary, which includes this experince and so much more of this beautiful region and listen to our Bangkok and Phuket episodes to continue your Thai travels!

Chiang Mai Jungle Trek – Episode Transcript

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Today we’re diving into the two day, one night overnight jungle trek that we did in Northern Thailand.

We briefly talked about this trek in our Chiang Mai episode, but we wanted to do a deep dive into

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the trek to give you squaddies more details.

And today you have just me, Jamal and Brittany with you talking about this experience.

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So when we were planning our Thailand trip, we knew that we wanted to do this jungle trek.

When we were in Chiang Mai, we used a company called Chiang Mai Trekking with P Roon, which we had

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heard about from our neighbor Lisa, who took a very similar trip to Thailand a couple years back but

did a jungle trek with this company.

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So this company offers three day, two night, 2 day one night or day trip options.

And I was like, you know, I think we’ll pick the middle option because I did want to do an overnight

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village experience.

But three days, two nights was a little bit too long for my comfort and we didn’t want to have large

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backpacking backpacks.

We wanted to be able to fit everything we needed for this into just a normal size day bag.

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So that’s what we decided to do the two day, one night.

And when we had our dates settled, once we knew our flights to Thailand, figured out our itinerary

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of everything else we were doing in different cities, and when we were going to be in Chiang Mai, we

immediately booked this through the company’s website.

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They will then send you an e-mail letting you know that you have to make an initial deposit of 1000

Thai baht, which is equivalent to about $30.00.

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And then of course, when you arrive in Thailand, more particularly Chiang Mai, a couple days before

your trek, is when you need to go to their office to actually pay it.

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But as soon as we made reservations, we got the invoice sent to us US saying hey go ahead and pay

that 1000 which you have to do via PayPal.

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So we did that and then you start looking into the supplies that you need for this trek prior to you

going to Thailand.

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So we needed a backpack.

We do have backpacks, but I wanted a really lightweight 1.

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And I found a backpack that actually folds into itself and it’s like a packable backpack and it’s

very lightweight.

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And I got this in advance so that we can make sure to do a mock pack before we left for a trip to

make sure everything fits.

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You also are recommended to bring a sleeping bag.

We did not bring a sleeping bag because of space, but if you did bring one it would be more

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comfortable, a little bit warmer, but they do provide you with linens and some blankets and a

pillow.

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You also want to bring hiking shoes, and it makes sense because, oh, you’re going hiking.

Most people that were on our tour, Brittany included, did not bring hiking shoes.

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They just brought tennis shoes.

But I was like, I’m bringing my hiking shoes.

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I feel like I’m really going to need it.

And it came in handy having them because you are going over some steep and loose terrain and gives

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you a lot better grip than just normal tennis shoes.

It also recommends you pack things like a jacket or sweater, sandals, hat, toiletries.

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I would recommend packing baby wipes and toilet paper, and if you’re a female, maybe even a shiwi, a

quick dry towel.

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Of course you’re going to want a bathing suit, flashlight and insect repellent.

And we’re going to get to exactly what we did and what this hike included.

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That way you’re going to see, hey, why are we listing sandals, a towel, bathing suit, etc.

Because it’s not just a jungle hike.

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We did activities in between that of course are conducive for you to be able to have these items and

make it a lot more pleasurable and enjoyable experience for you.

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So leading up to the trip, we got emails that we needed to pay the rest of our balance in cash in

person.

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So when we actually got to Chiang Mai, we went and paid our balance and we got a little briefing.

He showed us pictures of the village that we would be in, gave us an idea of what to expect.

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So you can either pick a private tour, so it’s just you and your group, or you can join a group

tour.

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And the pricing for that differs based on how many people are in your group.

And the more people there are, the cheaper it is.

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There was nine of us, so we paid 3500 baht each, which is approximately $100 a person.

So it was 3500 per person, so 7000 baht total.

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But we had already paid the 1000, so in person we only need to pay that 6000 baht cash.

So the general overview that we got was that we would go to a waterfall, do a jungle hike, stay

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overnight in the village home and then hike out of the jungle and then go rafting on a river and and

at an elephant sanctuary.

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So the night before we ended up getting picked up, we were staying at a hotel in Chiang Mai and we

were going to be checking back into that hotel upon return.

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But we felt there was no need to pay for a hotel that night that we were on the jungle trek if we

weren’t going to be staying there.

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So our intent was to check out our hotel was very nice and said yes, you could go ahead and leave

your luggage here until you come back.

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So we did do that, but the night before, we took everything that we needed from our normal suitcase

and put it into our hiking backpack.

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So our swimsuit, sandals, towel, change of clothes, toiletries, et cetera, we all packed into our

hiking backpack the night before.

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That way we were ready.

So we got picked up at 8:30 and we got into the back of a converted truck bed.

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So the back of the truck had benches lying the sides of the truck bed.

No seatbelts, nine of us total.

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So there was eight of us in the back, four on each side, and then one Rd. in the truck with the

driver and the guide.

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It was an interesting group of us hikers.

There were three people from Belgium, 2 from France, 2 from Germany, and then us two Americans.

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So we were, we’re kind of in the minority as we did not speak French or German.

Well, I would say more particularly French, because some people may not realize that in Belgium they

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speak French.

So five out of the nine of us were French speakers.

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So then French became the dominant language that was spoken.

But of course we all communicated, talked, and our guide of course did not know French and it was in

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English.

But nevertheless, we were outnumbered in terms of non-native English speakers.

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I’d also like to point out that Jamal and I were the oldest people by several years on this trek.

But when talking to the guide, he said he hosts families and people of all ages.

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So that was just the group that was hiking that day.

And once we got in the car, we kind of introduced ourselves to everyone.

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We drove about 40 minutes to a market where they picked up food and supplies for our stay.

And then we made another drive over to a waterfall.

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In the waterfall was called Mukfa Waterfall.

Yeah.

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And this was, it was about a 30 minute drive from the market and getting to the market was already a

40 minute drive.

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So we’re already at about an hour and 10 minutes just to get to the waterfall in terms of travel

time.

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Now realistically, this waterfall is not far distance wise from Sheng Mai, but with the roads that

you have to take the traffic, it makes for a lot of time to get to these places.

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So if you haven’t ever been to Sheng Mai, Shang Mai is a large city.

It’s not as large as Bangkok.

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There’s no skyscrapers.

It’s a little bit more classical, but it is a large city.

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But it is surrounded by the lush, beautiful Thai forests and mountains.

So we are getting out of the city into the jungle, forest and mountain areas here to this waterfall.

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The waterfall is actually in a National Park called DOI SU Tepui National Park, and it was still

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pretty early in the morning when we got to the waterfall.

And if you were going to do this experience, I would say to already be dressed in a bathing suit if

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you think that you’re going to want to get into the water.

Otherwise you have to get dressed in a bathroom in the parking lot.

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And I can just say it probably wasn’t the cleanest bathroom I’ve been in.

Jamal decided he wasn’t going to get in the water, so he didn’t change.

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So that made it easy for him.

I wasn’t planning on getting in the water and swimming.

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It’s a beautiful waterfall.

The water and river and Creek where it flows into is relatively shallow, so I’m not going to just

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sit, you know, cross legged and not even be up to my knees and change into a swimsuit.

So I said, you know what?

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I’m not even going to deal with the hassle.

I’m just going to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

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It was still early in the day, not incredibly too hot at that point in time, so I didn’t feel the

need to get wet and I’m really glad that I didn’t.

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But yes, if you are planning on getting into the water, I highly agree with you, Brittany, you

should already be in your swimsuit.

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That way if your girl just take off whatever clothing you’re wearing on top, have that swimsuit

underneath.

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If you’re a guy, just have your swimsuit under your pants, shorts, whatever it is that you’re

wearing and all you need to do is take off your shirt and you’re good to go.

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No one in our group got in the water, but there were people there that were in the water, so it was

definitely something you could do if you wanted to.

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It was a short jungle trail to the waterfall, and along the way we saw a small venomous green snake

on the trail, so that was kind of cool.

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I wore my hiking sandals, My tivas.

Oh my gosh, I love these things.

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They work for every nature activity I do so wore them and which was helpful for the water crossing,

of course, because Jamal was wearing regular shoes, so that was nice.

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Yeah, You were just able to wear your Tevas and go into the water.

I wanted to get into the water at least, you know, to get closer to the waterfall.

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So I did take off my hiking boots, my wool socks, and put them back on afterwards.

So a little bit of an inconvenience that way, but not too big of a burden because like I mentioned

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earlier, having the hiking shoes, especially when we start getting on the hike, were a lot better

than just Tivas or tennis shoes.

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So then after the waterfall we drove an hour and a half of really windy roads.

If you were someone that gets carsick motion sick, this is where you need to be prepared.

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I had to sit on the edge and actually had to ask Jamal to switch me seats so that I could look out

the back and not the horizon because I was starting to feel a bit Carsick.

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Didn’t get sick though.

Then we stopped for lunch at a place along the river.

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We had fried rice topped with an egg and then a fruit plate.

And on our way out here the toilet was a squat toilet.

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So just keep that in mind.

Then when we were done with lunch, we had a little bit more of a drive to get to the point where we

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actually started the hike.

So we hiked 4 miles in the Hui Nam Dang jungle, which is really steep and slippery.

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There’s lots of UPS, lots of downs, and not too flat at all.

Everyone either slipped or fell.

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A few people fell.

Jamal and I did not.

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Jamal was the only person in our group that was wearing hiking shoes.

I didn’t want to bring my hiking boots because they’re big, bulky and I didn’t want to take up the

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space.

You can make it in tennis shoes, but you probably will slip because it’s so steep.

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But you know what?

Our guy did the whole thing in flip flops so it can be done.

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But you know what, in fairness to our guide, he is a jungle and village native to this region.

So he’s been hiking these mountains and hills in the jungle his whole life in those flip flops.

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So it was nothing to him.

But yeah, really having good shoes I think goes a long way.

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But it is doable in those tennis shoes.

But we’re at a point here in this jungle so close to the Myanmar, Burma border.

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When I say Myanmar or Burma, it’s all one country, but different terminology depending on how you

want to say it.

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But he even showed us that at some point he says, oh, we’re not too far from the border.

And he pointed out the mountain range that was actually the border between Thailand and Burma, which

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I thought was really unique and cool.

It was really lush and green as we hiked through and then eventually we made it to the village.

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There’s seventy families that live in the village we stayed in.

Our guide was one of them that was born there.

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He’s 31.

His name was Pierre.

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He grew up in the village and he is never stayed in the city for more than three days at a time.

When we were talking about other parts of Thailand, he said you probably know Thailand better than

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me because he’s really focused on staying near his village.

Yeah, so the only other city he’s been in is Shang Mai, when he goes in at the start of the tour,

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stays with family a couple days.

But realistically, he was talking about he really enjoys the village, the mountains, the jungle, the

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forest.

This is really where he thrives and doesn’t really want to go anywhere else.

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And I really respect that because I love when you’re in a place and your tour guide is passionate

about where they are.

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And he’s passionate about his village, his people, their lifestyle, and it made it all for a better

experience.

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To get to the village, you have to cross a river.

So there’s a bridge that goes over the river.

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And when you look below, we could see Buffalo in the water below us.

And then we actually were able to see an elephant on the river’s edge.

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That elephant actually lives in the jungle that we just hiked through, but is cared for by a

specialized elephant keeper called a MU Haut.

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And this is like an ancient tribe that actually specializes in elephant keeping.

So the elephant had a keeper.

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The elephant was 43 years old.

We had the opportunity to feed her bananas and sugar cane and watch her eat her food and then when

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we were done with that, he took her back and walked her back to the jungle for the night.

Yeah, because keep in mind this is a wild elephant.

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But of course, civilization and nature collide.

So this wild elephant comes into the village and surrounding areas.

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It’s been doing it its entire life.

The man who is taking care of it, not our tour guide, the elephant keeper who is a muhout, is making

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sure that it gets back into nature.

So we were able to spend a lot of time with it, observe it, which I thought was really fun.

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Yeah, watching elephants eat is so interesting.

The dexterity that they have with their trunk is amazing.

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When she was eating her bananas, I mean, she could pick them up individually and then she could drop

the ones that she doesn’t want to eat onto the ground.

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When they tried to feed her the ones that she dropped in the ground, she would drop them again.

Like she knew she didn’t like those ones.

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Watching her crush the sugar cane and get the extra layers off to get to the core that she wanted to

eat was just fascinating.

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I could watch an elephant eat for hours.

I really could.

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It was actually sad when she finally had to leave and there was no more food to feed her.

But what I thought was really interesting too is if you picked up a bunch of bananas, cause of

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course they let it feed her.

You could put it direct in her mouth or she would grab it with her trunk out of your hand.

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But let’s say you had a bunch of bananas and then she grabbed the bunch out of your hand and then

and you’ve still kept one banana behind.

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She was really at you with her trunk hammering you, hey, give me that banana.

Give me that banana.

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Like she knew it was still in your hand, ready to go for her.

And this was a truly humbling experience because I know there’s a lot of controversy around animals

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and interactions with humans like this.

But keep in mind, this truly is a wild elephant that roams its way into the village and it comes

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back and forth.

So it is acclimated to humans, but it is as wild as possible and can be when nature and civilization

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collide.

So we were actually supposed to do elephants the next day at an elephant sanctuary, but our guide

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said, well, since we’re seeing this elephant today, we’re going to do this instead.

We didn’t originally catch that, but our other two roommates had did and it came out later that

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evening.

Jamal felt like we had a little bait and switch.

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I did because I thought to myself, hey, we arrived in the village and oh, an elephant happens to be

here.

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Here’s a bonus experience.

I thought the next day when we were supposed to go to the elephant sanctuary, I don’t know why I

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seen the elephant the day before was going to affect that.

So I was kind of a little bit bummed out about the situation because going to the elephant sanctuary

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was going to be a whole experience.

We were going to raft down the river on bamboo rafts and then you arrive at the sanctuary along the

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shores and the elephants are there.

So I had this whole image in my head and idea of what we were going to experience and it got taken

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away.

But I do feel that our experience that we had here with this one elephant was obviously more

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personalized and special than probably what we would have experienced at the sanctuary.

At first I was like this is a bait and switch, but then I was like, you know what?

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We get such an amazing unique experience this one-on-one time with not an elephant that was rescued,

but a wild elephant that has an ancient tribe member as its keeper.

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And to get to learn about that and see it in the village, I thought was truly one-of-a-kind.

So I was OK with the swap.

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After we were done with the elephant, we went to the village home that we were staying in and it is

an elevated wooden Hut.

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So there are stairs to get to the second level.

And that’s where we had our very large room and all nine of us slept together and there was a

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bathroom attached underneath.

The level that we were staying in is an open aired space where there were tables in the bathroom

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area area and sink area.

So even though it’s two stories, the whole two stories isn’t enclosed.

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It’s that second level that’s enclosed for us to stay in.

We got to talk about the bathroom situation because we always mentioned the bathroom situation.

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And of course, if nature called when you were in the jungle, there’s nothing you can do about it.

But we are here at somebody’s home in the village.

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It is a village.

It is not as modern, of course, as what you’re going to find in Chiang Mai or Bangkok.

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So they did have bathroom accommodations for us.

We did have western style toilets, but there is no hooked up water plumbing.

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So there is water, but the toilet is not plumbed for it.

So you have to take water from a bucket, put it into the toilet and use that as the way to actually

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flush it versus just a flush lever on it.

So kind of a unique experience that way.

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If you didn’t want to use that toilet, then there was a traditional squat toilet for you as well.

O do keep that in mind when you’re out here.

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It’s not like you’re in the big city.

There was a modern toilet in the sense of a western style one, but of course not U to what we would

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equate as a normal standard with a flush.

So there was one western style toilet attached to our bedroom and our bedroom was a very large room

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and there was thin mattresses on the ground with a small pillow and two blankets per person.

Very clean, very very nice.

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On the downstairs level is 2 more bathrooms, one’s another western style toilet and then the squat

toilet and then there was a room for a shower.

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No hot water, so any shower that you’re going to take here is going to be cold.

We decided that we were going to take showers because it was so dusty in the jungle that we were

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just dirty and we just wanted to rinse off.

So we took really quick refreshing showers and got into some comfortable clothes for the evening.

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And as soon as everybody got comfortable, we went downstairs.

Outside of the room, we played cards.

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There was a hammock for us to lay on.

Our jungle guide had two children, so we were playing with his kids.

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And we were all just socializing as a group waiting for dinner because of course dinner in the

village is included.

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So we had a nice home cooked meal ready to go for us.

Yes we had spring rolls, fried chicken who’s so good, Curry, stir fry, vegetables and then we ended

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with fruit for dessert.

Really nice meal that they home cooked for us.

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Our guide, his wife while we played with our two kids.

And I do want to say this because they advised us they were going to give us water for the hike, but

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they were only going to give us 2 water bottles.

So if we wanted more to bring more for ourselves, but we didn’t need to bring a lot because once we

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got to the village, we can buy more water.

So when we were here staying at their home, if we needed water or anything else to drink, we did

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have to buy it and alcohol was there too.

So we can go ahead and buy alcohol if you wanted to have some beer while you were there.

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So of course lots of people on our tour ended up having some alcohol just as well.

So you do have that available to you, but it is for purchase and not included with the tour.

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After dinner, our guide made a bonfire.

It was really nice to sit out and enjoy the open air.

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The stars were amazing.

It’s a great place to star watch if you’re out in that area.

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The stars were just incredible.

I feel like I’ve only seen stars that bright and clear a handful of times in my life, no more than

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three or four.

And this was by far one of those experiences.

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It was so beautiful to be out there and just enjoy the experience with the bonfire and being out in

the jungle.

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Then we got ready for bed, so we all went to sleep.

We slept on that thin mattress.

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We had the two blankets, one small pillow.

The pillow was not the most comfortable, Jamal said He was cold and they had recommended bringing

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sleeping bags, which we did not of course.

But with the two blankets I was very comfortable.

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Yeah, it gets cold out there.

Shang Mai is not like you’re in Phuket or Bangkok where it’s really, really hot.

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The temperatures a lot more cool.

We were up in the hills and mountains of the jungle.

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So at night it cools down.

I mean, it’s definitely hot during the day, but it really cools down at night.

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So I wasn’t freezing, but I could have been more warm.

It was like low 50s at night, so that was our overnight experience.

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The next day was day two of our trek.

We woke up around 6:37 in the morning and we were told that we were going to be leaving at around

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nine.

People woke up later than that, but that was just the time Jamal and I woke up naturally.

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I lounged in the hammock for a little bit.

It was really pretty.

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When we woke up, it was foggy, kind of misty, eerie, cool.

So I was in my sweats, a beanie, just hanging out in the hammock.

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It was really nice slow morning it.

Was a beautiful slow morning while Brittany was lounging in the hammock.

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Our guide while his wife was prepping breakfast for everybody, asked me am I ready for some coffee

and I was.

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So we brought out hot water if you wanted tea as well as coffee.

So I started just enjoying my coffee, waking up, enjoying that warmth with the kind of cool eerie

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fog that Brittany was describing while we were waiting on breakfast.

And when breakfast came it did not disappoint.

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They made fringe toast, regular toast, we had eggs, fruit, and of course the coffee and tea that I

mentioned.

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Very simple, but also very good and very satisfying and really nourishing to start our day because

we were going to be hiking some more leading onto that river raft.

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Yeah, so we hiked through the village again.

We learned a little bit about the village, past properties with livestock.

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We even passed a church in the area.

And then we were told prior to leaving that we should put our bathing suit on beneath our hiking

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clothing because we were going to do a raft along the river.

So first we had a 2 hour jungle trek.

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Again, it’s really steep.

We did a different path than we did the day before.

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Part of our trek was actually along the river itself that we were going to be getting on as well.

Yeah.

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So as soon as we were done doing our hike, coming along the shores of the river, we got to the point

where we got on our bamboo rafts.

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Now these bamboo rafts are handmade rafts by the locals.

They’re tying them together the traditional way with whatever leaves and vines are available from

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the forest, and we sailed down this nice, calm river for about two hours.

Some of it was shaded, some of it not, depending on where you’re positioned as you’re meandering

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down, but this was a really enjoyable experience.

As calm as the river was, there were certain points to where we came across some Rapids and you’d

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get splashed up with some water.

And it wasn’t any crazy Rapids.

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I wouldn’t call it whitewater wrapping, but the Rapids were definitely high enough that you would

get splashed and give you a nice little cooldown every now and then from when you were being hit by

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the sun.

When it was really nice and calm on the water, we had opportunities to stand up if we wanted to on

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the raft or even try to steer the raft.

We did not do that, but we were on the raft with the two German men and one of them did steer the

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raft, so they had that opportunity.

After about two hours of rafting, we did stop for lunch.

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It was near the first spot we had stopped along the river when we had started our trek, but this

time it was at a different restaurant that actually had showers for us so that we could shower

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before we had our meal and get changed.

And then we had pad Thai, French fries and a fruit plate, which might sound like a weird

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combination, but it was so good.

It was really good and especially after all that hiking and being on the water, it was really,

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really delicious and enjoyable.

And then of course, we had our ride back into Shang Mai.

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As soon as we got close to the city center on the outskirts, they gave us the option if we wanted

to, to go to a butterfly farm as well as orchid garden.

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It was called the BI Orchid Butterfly Farm.

So everybody elected to do this and thought that it would be fun.

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So it was just a quick 30 minute stop.

So this wasn’t on the itinerary originally, but I have no doubt that they probably ask everybody if

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they want to do this if time allows for it to make the stop.

But I couldn’t say one way or the other, but I really feel like they probably do.

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And then we went back to Chiang Mai.

We were dropped off at our hotel and we immediately dropped off our clothing to get washed because

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everything was so dusty.

So, so Dusty, but what would you rate the experience, Brittany?

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Because I know you really, really wanted to do this.

I was indifferent on it and I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, but coming from somebody who really

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wanted to do it, what’s your honest opinion?

OK, so I think there’s a lot to consider and I’ve been backpacking before, hiking before and all of

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that.

But if you are a nature person and you like hiking and meeting a guy who’s from the village and

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learning about culture and village and having a really unique authentic experience, this is for you.

If you are a person who likes posh hotels and a more luxurious type of experience, this is not for

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you.

So for me, I am a nature lover and I don’t mind a little bit of dirt.

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So I would give this an 8.2.

And I think that rating is because they did switch the elephants.

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But the food was great, the company was great.

They really took care of us and I was comfortable and happy and and it was worth it for me.

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Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it.

I enjoyed my experience just as well.

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If you are in Chiang Mai and want to get a side of the city and surrounding area that you’re not

going to see within the town, I highly recommend you do one of these jungle tracks and village

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tours.

Whether it just be the single day or two day, one night or beyond that they offer.

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Really recommend it.

Thank you so much for tuning in to Just the Tip.

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