MOUNTAIN BIKING
ACTION HOLIDAY : 4 days / 3 nights
( Daily departure from Chiang Mai )

Day 1 Chiang Mai - Mae Suai - Baan Huai Khrai
Depart from Chiang Mai by Land Rover via Doi Saket and Wiang Pa Pao to Mae Suai. Stop enroute at Baan Pong Nam Ron Hot Springs. Arrive at Mae Suai and proceed to Mae Suai Cave by bicycle (7 kms.). Visit to cave with interesting stalactite and stalagmite formations. Soft drinks and box lunch. Continue biking to Baan Huai Khrai (30.5 kms.), passing several hilltribe villages enroute. ( Muser Pha Daeng, Karen Thung Phrao, Muse Huai Mae Zaang and Lisu Huai Khi Lik Mai ). Dinner and overnight in simple hilltribe cottage.

Day 2 Baan Huai Khrai - Doi Vavee
After breakfast, bike from Baan Thaton to Fang (27 kms.), passing through several hilltribe villages (Karen Huai Nam Yen, Karen Ya Nam and Karen Pong Klaang Nam). Lunch enroute. Free afternoon or visit to tea plantations and tea factory. Bike to Baan Vavee. Explore the village before biking to Lualee Resort (6 kms.). Dinner and overnight at resort.

Day 3 Baan Vavee - Baan Mae Salak - Baan Thaton
American breakfast, Bike from Baan Vavee to Baan Mae Salak (15 kms.) with short visit to a hilltribe village. Continue by long-tail speed boat up river to Thaton and check-in at Mae Kok River Lodge.
Lunch and free afternoon to visit surrounding temples and hilltribe village, relax at the Lodge. Dinner and overnight at Lodge.

Day 4 Baan Thaton - Chiang Dao - Chiang Mai
After breakfast, bike from Baan Thaton to Fang (25 kms.) to visit hot springs and end bike trip. Continue by Land Rover to Chiang Dao (76 kms.). Take one-hour bamboo raft trip down the Ping River to Chiang Dao. Depart Chiang Dao for Chiang Mai (68 kms.). Arrive in Chiang Mai and transfer to hotel.

Remarks :	The participants in these trips should be in reasonably, good physical condition as there are some very steep passages involved and temperatures can, occasionally, become quite hot in summer months.
Seat-in-coach :	Departure every Wednesday (Min. 2 pax).
Clothing :	Bicycle touring shoes or sneakers / slippers or sandals / one pair of bicycling shorts / assortment of shirts and T-shirts / sun hat / sunglasses / sun lotion ... etc.

 

 

Seat in coach = Min. 2 pax