Day 34-April 8th: I got up at 8 AM and had breakfast at the guesthouse. We gathered ourselves, met the folks who were joining us from other guesthouses, and were off! There were 12 of us altogether: Anthony (Australian), Anna (Swedish), Siljie (Norwegian), Antonio and Sol (Spanish), Josef and Gunthi (German), Elizabeth, Danny, Richard, Steven (British, all traveling together). Our guide, a Thai woman named King, gave us a choice. Do we want to trek in the area where there are 40 others doing the same thing as us or do we want to go a different way and avoid the crowd? We chose the latter. It meant 3 hours of bamboo rafting instead of 4.5 hours, and we were fine with that. Our first stop was a market outside of Chiang Mai. King purchased our
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