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Day 1,
Tonight at 9 Pm you guide will meet you at your hotel in Bangkok or Chiang
Mai and transfer to the bus station for the air conditioned VIP overnight
bus to
Mae Sot.
Your guide will travel with you
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Day 2,
This morning you will be met at the bus station, breakfast then transfer
by vehicle to Umphang passing a refugee camp of around 40,000 Hill
Tribe refugees from Burma. You will have lunch and settle into your
bungalows. Your local guide will brief you on the terrain and obstacles
you will be facing during your trek. This will also include safety
briefing, do’s and don’ts and a white water rafting lesson.
Overnight here (B,L,D)
Day 3,
This morning enjoy breakfast served on the banks of the Umphang River
with it's beautiful morning mist and surrounding mountains. We then
board
the
raft for a leisurely 3 hour journey through canyons with high limestone
cliffs and many waterfalls. You should see many families of monkeys
climbing the cliffs n the mountain canyons. We will stop and have lunch
then raft again to a Karen hill tribe village for the evening. You
will have an excellent all you can eat family style Thai dinner prepared
for you including fresh fish caught in the very clean river. Your accommodations
are traditional bamboo bungalows. Toilets and showers are available
here.(B,L,D)
Day 4,
This morning after breakfast we go for an exciting 2 and ½ hours
of white water rafting to our camp site along the river bank. After lunch
we raft and hike to another waterfall and return to the camp for dinner
and the evening. (B,L,D).
Day 5,
Today we must use elephants to carry supplies and porter us across streams
and marshes. This area is so remote it takes almost 2 days to get to
the nearest road. There are no trails so your guides will cut their
way through the jungle in some areas. To cross over a mountain range
you can ride the elephants if you wish as the trail is almost straight
up and down. The elephant need to use their elbows and knees in some
places to get up the mountain. Lunch will be on the trail. Tonight
will be camping again along a stream where everyone can clean up and
swim. Dinner will be cooked for you here. You guides will have picked
many vegetables and herbs from the jungle and other interesting food
such as insects, fish and reptiles for you to try. (B,L,D)
Day 6,
This morning we join the guides in washing the elephants in the stream
and breakfast before hiking for about 2 hours to our pick up point then
return to Umphang to shower and lunch then on to Mae Sot for the evening
bus back to Bangkok or Chiang Mai. (B,L,D))
End Tour,
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