Jungle Spirit 4
Itinerary:
JUNGLE SPIRIT 4
DAY ONE,
We pick you up at airport, or at your hotel. Car transport up to mountain 20 km from Maehongson. Start travel on foot first place is going up hill for 1 hour then walking on flatter land along mountain ridge and slope take about 3-4 hours walk, on the way you see spectacular view of mountains landscape. You walking through hill evergreen forests, there are Oak, chestnut, Pine, Cycad, Dillenia, Buahinia, smell the fragrant flowers and some trees and to feel the Mountains fresh air. Evening arrive to forest camp a place to stay the night where you could enjoy the silent evening. A good place to sit on porch to watch the nature around. My porters and I will prepare Thai Meals with fresh ingredients cook on an open fire. You will stay in a wooden and part of bamboo hut with thatch roof. You will have basic comfortable for the sleeping you will have mats, Mosquito net, sleeping bags, and pillow. In the evening sit around the fire, enjoy dinner by candlelight.
DAY TWO,
Start walking in the morning, walking down on local trail to dense evergreen jungle. This day you would study and see many more of different of kind of trees, emergent trees, canopy, under-story, and forest floor plants and also the massive lianas, I would inform you their names and their life history. We could also discover some animals in the area birds, insects, beetle, frogs, lizards and some snakes. Afternoon arrived at a Karen village. We have private home-stay for you with Karen family. You stay in a house on the second floor with large balcony to see the mountain's scenery around the house. Night-light this is a good place to watch the Moon and the Stars.
DAY THREE,
Cock-a-doodle-doo!!!. When you wake up in the morning, pigs are running around under the house and people are setting off to work in the fields. Time for a good breakfast of hot tea, coffee, toast, pancakes, fruit salad, eggs, fresh juice. Before leaving we take a walk around the village, visit the primary school, then start the hike again. On the trail you can hear gibbons' enchanting song from far off on the hillside, or you may see them swinging from tree to tree. There are many birds, too. you need a pair of binoculars to spot them. We pass a small village on the way, where we stop for a tea break, and you can people-watch. Lunch in the forest: you get your food wrapped in banana leaves. This time it's fried noodles. We make bamboo chopsticks and a bamboo cup for you. (Everything is possible with bamboo. We can make firecracker in a bamboo stem!) After lunch, you can take it along with you, to use again or to take home as a souvenir. In the afternoon we climb a bigger mountain with a beautiful view. Arrive in Ban Huai Po, a village settled on high elevation in evergreen forest. Stay the night in the village. Enjoy dinner. You can see the people's simple way of life, under the brilliant night sky. I could tell you some of the constellations. Get a good night's rest.

DAY FOUR,
After breakfast, we start ascending one hour to the mountain top, walking along a ridge. I know the mountain jungle well and can point out things you would otherwise miss. You see the diversity of flora and fauna in the seasonal forest of Thailand. On high land you see mountain Cycad trees, Palms, Pines, Oaks and Chestnuts, members of the Erica family, Wild Orchids, etc. We eat lunch on a place with a panoramic view. You can sit on the ground, and I provide you with a plastic sheet to sit on. We climb down to Nam Hu creek. At the bottom of the hill we hike through the creek time to cool down your feet! You can stop to swim in the river. We finish our trek and the car takes us back to town.
ENDS