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| Northern Thailand offers great trekking oppurtunities through dramatic countryside. Of particular interest that these treks allowyou to visit different hill-tribes which have made the mountains in Northern Thailand their home. We chose to do a trekking of two days in the Mae Teang area 1 hour north of Chiang Mai. Although we were told (how naive) this area was still quite of the beaten track, it was clearly not. During the 2 day trip we visited villages from 3 different hill tribes. This was a real disappointment, since these villages were tourist traps where the people were only trying to sell you their handicrafts. Despite this, we could still appreciate the diversity within this group of people: from famous long-neck women (Paduang tribe, originally from Burma), and Lisu (also Burma), to the clearly more Chinese looking Hmong people (from Southern China). Furthermore, the combination of some elephant riding, Bamboo rafting (very relaxing) and white water rafting and some very beautiful walking lush bamboo forests made it nonetheless an enjoyable trip. However, if we would visit this area a second time, we would opt for a more remote and longer trekking that enable you to visit less spoilt hill-tribe villages. |
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