SENSATION THAILAND

Detailed Itinerary

• Day 1

  CHIANG MAI – MAE TANG – SOB KAY

  -   09h00  Depart from the hotel and spend just a couple hours by local truck to Mae Tang district in the northern part of Chiang Mai.  

  -   11h00 Enter the forestry area and starting riding an Elephant from the camp through the jungle for about an hour.
  -   12h00 Try a popular but simple Thai dish, Pad-Thai as lunch at the camp.  
  -   13h00 Transfer to Sob-Kay to check-in at Anatta Resort.  
  -   14h00 Take a bike trip for 2 hours to visit the Akha hill tribe and return to the resort.  
  -   16h00 Relax and enjoy the picturesque scenery over the Mae Tang River around the resort area.
• Day 2

  SOB KAY - FANG

  -   08h00 Have an early breakfast at the resort before being transferred to a trek point.

  -   09h00 Trek about 1 and a half hour to a natural waterfall for lunch and recreation;  swimming and hanging around.  
  -   13h00 Trek back to the pickup point.
  -   14h00  Further the journey by an exciting white water rafting through many rapids down the Mae Tang River.
  -   15h00 Continue by truck to Fang district.  
  -   17h00 Check-in at Phumanee Hotel for dinner and overnight
• Day 3

  FANG – DOI PU MUEN

   -  08h00 After breakfast at hotel, spend a lovely morning to explore a local market and buy some vegetables and ingredients needed during the cooking class.

   -  10h00 Also enjoy a cycling trip around the community to visit an old temple of Fang town.
   -  11h00 Return back to the hotel for a cooking class.  Cook and taste your own lunch.  
   -  13hoo Depart from the hotel to visit villages of silverware making, cloth weaving in Thai-Lue style sword smith and a buffalo village.  
   -  15h00 Take a further drive by 4x4 WD along a bumpy dirt road uphill to Lahu hill tribe village at Doi Pu Muen (the road can also be muddy and sleeper during  rainy season).
   -  16h00 Arrive and warm hospitality welcome by home host.  Leave your gear at the Home-Stay (bamboo cottage in traditional Lahu style) by relaxing and getting around playing game with kids, participating local activities, sitting chatting with local people or even helping preparing dinner.
   -  17h00 Another experience that can be learned from the tribe is how to make roof from leaves also to weave basket from the sedge (depending on the season).  
   -  19h00 Candle light dinner under no electricity! End up the night with a traditional hill tribe performance as well as their history and legend.
• Day 4

  DOI PU MUEN – WATERFALL – CHIANG MAI

  - 06h00 Enjoy the last morning in the forest watching beautiful sunrise over the hilltop.

  - 07h00 Breakfast at Home stay.
  - 08h00 Take more time to explore the village especially the tea plantation as this is the main career of these Lahu people from Doi Pu Muen.  Get to know some knowledge about how tea made including picking leave, drying and roasting processes.  
  - 10h30 Then, transfer to Pu Muen Waterfall for lunch and recreation.  
  - 12h00 Learn a local wisdom about how to cook bamboo lunch in jungle style near the waterfall.
  - 14h00  Return back to Chiang Mai.  
  - 17h00  Arrive and transfer to the hotel.

• 08 to 14 days before arrival date- 50 % of tour price
• 01 to 07 days before arrival date- 75 % of tour price
• No show- 100% of tour price

• VAT, in case the government is adjusting the presently applied VAT of 7% to 10%, or any other amount
• This is a sample itinerary, and the routes and timing may change according to local conditions, but the general content of the trip will remain the same.
• All rates are subject to change without prior notice.