So the two day slow boat turned into a three day travel session, this was helped by our boat breaking down on the 2nd day meaning we had to spend the night in a small town right across from the border.
Once we got into Chiang Mai our epic journey was worth it as we met the nicest landlady to date. The staff at Libra Guesthouse really couldn't do more for us and it was topped off when we booked a 2 day trek through the guesthouse. This was brilliant and it was shared with a couple from America who had recently retired, I hope I have an ounce of their energy when I retire. Hugh and Lynne were great to be around especially as Lynne wanted to know everything about where we were so we learned so much about the local villages.
The trek started with a trip to a 50ft waterfall then onto a hot spring. The water was so hot I could only stand in it for a short time but it was really cool to see it.
We then took a 9km trek through the jungle across three mountains. This is the most exercise we've done since we've been here and it was quite hard going. (It didn't help that we had a little bit of a hang over from doing pretend Karaoke into phalic shapped carrots with some random Thai people the night before!) We saw some amazing views though!
It was a welcome sight when we got to our camp for the night with the most basic bed ever and the guide cooked us the most amazing massuman curry!
The next day 2 obviously tame but otherwise free to roam elephants rocked up to take us on our trek, but first we got to help wash them and Mike had an unexpected bareback ride! We then jumped onto a bamboo raft which we thought might be boring... until we got to the rapids and had to hang on for dear life!
The trek was all in all amazing and gave us some awesome memories!
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