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October 5th 2007 by paulandelaine
Well we have returned after the most amazing 3 days ever! - this is gonna be a long one, cos want to capture it all for historical purposes, so sorry for excessive detailing!!!
We booked our 3 day trek with Eagle house 2, a 2 night 3 day trek off the tourist trail to the hill tribes and doi inthanon in northern thailand. Cost about 60 euro each including accom and all our food and water, and entry to national parks etc.
We set off at about 8.30am on the first day with our little bags (advised less is more for long walks) and our group. Group was made up of a canadian couple on honeymoon, emily and jason, a french canadian guy from montreal etienne, a german girl, marielle, and a scottish couple james and jen. We hoped into the back of the songthaew, like a truck with two benches in back for us to sit on. First stop was for elephant trekking in the wilderness! Scary stuff i found, steep ravines, and narrow grassy verges that these enormous animals carried us along. Our elephant (christened Nellie -like the song) was the only one without a
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October 6th 2007 - John S: Fantastic
Looks fantastic, and dont worry about the length of the posts Elaine, the longer the better!!
October 6th 2007 - sue: WOW
sounds amazing guys..apart from the leeches! thanks for sharing x
October 10th 2007 - Brian (Dad): Super Troopers
Fantastic - I felt myself slipping off that elephant. Do you think Mam & Myself would be up to it retracing your steps. Glad you both look well - the leeches are good for ye sucking out all those impurities methinks.
October 11th 2007 - Mark:
yeah, we're on our way out there! What's the overlap when we're in NZ? We arrive on the 30th in Christchurch, and fly out from Auckland on the 23rd March!
October 13th 2007 - Ken Graham: 12th October- Ken
What a rugged experience you'll never forget. Reminds me a little of our trek in the Peruvian jungle after a road was washed out, but your trek is more than I could handle. Fantastic.
October 17th 2007 - Emily:
Great account of the jorney! We're safe and sound now back in Toronto. Hope you enjoy the rest of your adventures!
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The local moonshine .. rough stuff!
Freshly made rice whyskey, watched how the guy made it. Its illegal in Thailand but no police around these parts
Dat and the mouse trap
This is how they catch mice, as with most things made out of bamboo. rats are generally shot using a powder gun and eatin .. yum yum!
Prepare the rise grains
This karen woman kindly let us take the photo. She is cleaning the rice before it can be eaten. think its kind of a sieving process... maybe to get the bugs out?!?
Solar Power
The government has donated solar panels. Mainly used for limited light but in this village of 370 people there is 3 TVs! they all gather together to watch when theres a big football match!
Weaving bags
Takes 1 week to make a bag using this method. It would make u think the next time u are haggling in the market and arguing over 10 cent. Strangly they can build a house in a day! the whole village get... [more]
At the playschool!
The play school s a bambo hut, the kids do have some modern looking toys to play with. Jason and Emily had some pens to give to them which they got excited about
Elaine Lunch time
Spar take note, no waste no wrapping, lunch is wrapped in a banna leave to keep it fresh and hot, easily discarded in the jungle, everything is reused, there is no waste. I think we could learn alot!
Hunger is the best sauce
After the many leech attacks elaine couldnt bring herself to eat the noodles (due to resemblence), she doesnt normally eat pinapple but look at her go :D .. never mind the sour face on her, she loved ... [more]
Bamboo bridge
This is the bridge we all sat on (9 of us in total) to have a 10 minute break.... a bit wobbly but felt sturdy enough, and too tired to worry too much about health and safety standards!!!!
Bath time
After 2 days its time to take a well earned was in the river .. aaaah .. women have to wear a sarong as it is considered improper to show any more skin than that
Building bamboo rafts
Our guides built the rafts for us while we had brekfast, 5 people to a raft with a person on the front and back with a long piece of bamboo to steer, I got the rudder job so Elaine got to chill out in... [more]
Elaine on top of Thailand
After the day of rafting and treking we went up to Thailands highest mountian, 2142 meters above sea level. Brilliant views from here.
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October 6th 2007 - John S: Fantastic
Looks fantastic, and dont worry about the length of the posts Elaine, the longer the better!!
October 6th 2007 - sue: WOW
sounds amazing guys..apart from the leeches! thanks for sharing x
October 10th 2007 - Brian (Dad): Super Troopers
Fantastic - I felt myself slipping off that elephant. Do you think Mam & Myself would be up to it retracing your steps. Glad you both look well - the leeches are good for ye sucking out all those impurities methinks.
October 11th 2007 - Mark:
yeah, we're on our way out there! What's the overlap when we're in NZ? We arrive on the 30th in Christchurch, and fly out from Auckland on the 23rd March!
October 13th 2007 - Ken Graham: 12th October- Ken
What a rugged experience you'll never forget. Reminds me a little of our trek in the Peruvian jungle after a road was washed out, but your trek is more than I could handle. Fantastic.
October 17th 2007 - Emily:
Great account of the jorney! We're safe and sound now back in Toronto. Hope you enjoy the rest of your adventures!
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