All Thailand Experiences. Thailand Elephant Safari with White Water Rafting

This tour offers the best in culture and nature Thailand has to offer combined with a wonderful soft adventure. Only 6 persons will be on each adventure so you enjoy the best experienced possible and not damage the fragile environment. Look here to see the pictures.

Please take notice that any text that is underlined is clickable to and more information.

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 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, Here are the videos of the elephant safari and rafting Join us rafting through mountain canyons and jungle on one of the most beautiful rivers in Thailand at Umphang. Lots of waterfalls, rapids, colorful birds and monkeys on this 4 day journey. We stop for 1 night in a hill tribe village and 2 nights camping. From the end of the rafting it takes 2 days to reach civilization by elephant. PART 1 Here in part 2 we continue rafting on the river, go over a couple of rapids, our guides make cups and spoons out of bamboo, see a beautiful kingfisher, more excellent cliffs and start the tour of the karen hill tribe village. Here in part 3 we finish the tour of the village, do some white water rafting, see monkeys and beautiful Tee Lau Lay waterfall. Here in part 4 we leave our camp site and travel over mountains and streams by elephant through the jungle. We have a baby elephant with us that is very cute. We heard Gibbon in the distance but did not see them. In this final part we finish our adventure by camping near waterfalls and swim in the beautiful stream. Our guide show how to make a small animal trap and other interesting things out of bamboo. We then ride elephants to our pick up point. Here is what our previous clients had to say about the Safari with us. Kylie and I would just like to express our amazement of how great our Elephant and White Water Rafting adventure holiday was with your tour group. The scenery, the guides, the food, the elephants!!… they were all beyond our expectations and it made our holiday so fun and memorable. You have done a fantastic job of finding the most beautiful locations that feel so secluded and removed from the rest of civilisation that it made for such an adventurous holiday. We can't wait to do another holiday through your company! Braden and Kylie Sue Meiklejohn, Melbourne Australia Please fill out the form below and submit I need accommodations in Bangkok I need train tickets Bangkok-Chiang Mai-Bangkok I need air tickets Bangkok-Chiang Mai-Bangkok I need accommodations in Chiang Mai How many persons in your party? One Two Three Four More than four Questions and Comments Your name: Your E-mail address (required):

Call us using SKYPE @ jaideecm

Subscribe to know when we add updates, interesting articles and videos of Thailand

Have questions about Thailand and our tours and soft adventures?
We will be happy to answer them for you just click on this text.

---

Home Page Accommodations Excursions Descriptions The All Thai Difference Design an Excursion Guestbook Make a Reservation EXAMPLE ITINERARIES: 1 Day Bangkok Cultural Tour 3 Day Jungle Trek 3 Day Village Tek 4 Day North Thailand 6 Day Culture & Nature 8 Day Nature & Adventure 8 Day Hill Tribe Jungle Experience 7-9 Day White Water Rafting & Elephant Safari

Copyright & copy; 1997-2010 Infothai CM Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
Please report technical problems to webmaster@all-thailand-exp.com
This document was updated on:;April 17, 2010