| This trek was in November 2001, and I did the same trek with the same guide in 1999 as well. Now that I have lived in Chiang Mai for a few years and talk with travellers nearly every day, I can see that our trekking was the same format as thousands of other tourists. Three days and two nights, elephant riding, bamboo rafting, hilltribe villages, etc. I've looked at many many trekking pictures over the past few years and mine are pretty standard - people riding elephants, people sitting all together with their mouths full in the evening, the celebratory Sang Som bucket upon arrival back in Chiang Mai. It is still a great experience though and a good way to make some friends along your travels. Trekking is the number-1 activity in Chiang Mai and the north. |
