Chiang Mai is famous for its hillside trekking. Over 2 days, I trekked about 20 k's across a beautiful countryside, complete with activities for around zero dollars a day. Just kidding, but it was still pretty damn cheap. As you trek from village to village, checking out the primative and isolated hill tribes of Northern Thailand, sleeping in the villages, riding elephants and cruising down a river on a bamboo raft, one thing simply overwhelms your senses - mud. I have never seen so much mud in my life. The rivers are brown, the rain is brown, the streets are muddy and god forbid you step off the path or misstep for an instant, cause you'll be covered in mud. The whole country is browner than Sid, which is why wearing white boardies was not the
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