Hilltribe Trek

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Armed with our trekking gear, floppy hats and walking sticks we wave goodbye to civilisation and head for the hills on our three day trek. Our journey began with an elephant ride through the jungle followed by a three hour hike to our first hilltribe hut pearched half way up a mountain next to a waterfall. But there was no hot shower to look forward to upon arrival, instead our sweaty bodies had the pleasure of bathing in the freezing, yet very refreshing stream infront of the waterfall and 'using the bathroom' involved squatting over a whole in the ground, of which the Thai's call the 'happy room', as you can imagine it wasn't the most pleasant experience! We spent the evening sat around a fire and then released air balloons into the sky to rid ourselves of bad luck (Thai tradition). Day two of the trek began with another three hour hike to the second village where we were greeted by many Thai children wanting to play football and sing to us, many squeeling pigs, chickens and their chicks, stray dogs and their puppies and a few cockerill's that decided to wake us at 5 am the next morning! Day three - another 3 hour hike and finally our tired, smelly, bruised and mossi bitten bodies returned back to cilvilisation for a hot shower and a few beers. It was an experience we will never forget, it certainly opened our eyes to the way others live and made us appreciate how lucky we are.

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Photos

The Trek
Village on the Mountain

Comments

[Jo]

Wow sounds like you had an amazing time! Loving the picture of Butler.....I mean the Budda!!! :) Keep the blogs coming!!

[Daniel Lee Butler - IT Legend]

Not my Brother but!!!!
That actually looks like my uncle and as you know he is over there at the moment.....maybe he is some sort of god in that village.... Anyway guys I'm not sure I deserved that, here I am expertly fixing computers, working my fingers to teh bone trying to feed my family and I look on the web to see how my "friends" are getting on only to see that I'm getting ridiculed!! Malc is that a rugby world cup hat you're wearing???? Absolute fag Stay well homies DLB xx

[Karen]

hiya
Hi to you both. You look as if you are having a fab time. What happened to the no drinking whilst you are away Ben? All is well here, have discovered I have woodworm and asbestos in my house, so we are all wearing white plastic suits in bed. (your dads suggestion Ben!) Love all your news, keep it coming, x

[Sandy]

Great Hats!
Hi guys, lovin the hats - very sexy! Thailand looks fantastic, wish i was there! I'm never gonna get Steve to go on a trek! It's hard enough trying to get him to eat 'bits', let alone save up some money to do some travelling! Keep up the blogs. xxx

[Kirsty]

Nice hats!

[Kelly]

Hey!!
Look slike your having an amazing time. Loving the updates - keep them coming! Love ya lots Kel (Uni)

[Hannah a.k.a TED]

Yay the hat has made the photos!
Rachel Bill Hill I am so proud that your floppy hat made it to the travel hall of fame. You look fabulous!! Work it baby work it!!! Ben you look the part too.... Trek sounds amazing... if not a little smelly but then we know Rach naturally has a bit if a pong anyway!! Ben how do you cope?!! Love you lots ... miss you tons. Loving the blogs. xxx