(Daily departures with English-speaking guide, and full board)


The 40-room Hmong Hilltribe Lodge located in the hills north of Chiang Mai offers the tourist a unique chance to experience exotic hilltribe atmosphere in relative comfort. Overnight stay at the Lodge featuring B.B.Q. dinner and cultural presentations by the Hmong Hilltribe are featured in this 2 days/1 night Hilltribe Adventure.
 
ITINERARY:  (Minimum 2 persons)
Day 01   Chiang Mai – Mae Saa Valley – Hmong Hilltribe Lodge  (L/D)
08:00 Leave Chiang Mai by Landrover to visit the hill tribe museum at Mae Rim and an elephant working site.  Watch the elephants taking their daily bath in the stream before beginning to haul timber. You will be amazed by their strength and clever team work. Also visit to an orchid farm.
12:00 Lunch at local restaurant.
13:00 Depart for Ban Nong Hoi Mai and Ban Meo Mae Khi to visit the Hmong Hilltribe villages. A brief stop is made at the Royal Project where it teaches the hill people to grow vegetables and flowers.
19:00 B.B.Q. dinner at HMONG HILLTRIBE LODGE followed by presentation of Meo dances and overnight.
   
Day 02  Hmong Hilltribe Lodge – Chiang Mai  (B/L)
07:00 Breakfast.
08:00

Time at leisure to discover the activities in a hilltribe village nearby.
11:00 Leave the Lodge and drive uphill on the way to Hang Dong en route Samoeng.
12:00 Lunch at resort on the way.
13:00 Proceed to visit the handicraft workshops at Ban Tawai (Hang Dong). Get an insider’s view of Chiang Mai crafts people at work.
16:00 Return to Chiang Mai and transfer to your hotel.
 

 

(Daily departures with English-speaking guide, and full board)


Visitors will have a unique opportunity to explore the hills around the north of Chiang Mai, by visiting several hilltribe villages, going down the rapids in a river on inflatable rafts (around mid March-June due to low level of water bamboo rafts are used instead), trekking through the forest on elephant backs, biking on the dirt road through the jungle and hilly countryside, and walking on the steep wooded hills.  Overnight stays at the Hmong Lodge (simple but equipped with necessary amenities) offer hilltribe atmosphere.  The lodge features barbecue / camp - fire dinner and cultural presentations by the Hmongs.
 
ITINERARY: 
Day 01   Chiang Mai – Hmong Hilltribe Lodge  (-/L/D)

Pick up passengers from hotels, airport, railway station and bus terminal in Chiang Mai.  Depart Chiang Mai by 4-WD Land Rover or similar to visit the hiltribe museum at Mae Rim and a local market at Mae Malai.  Then continue to Ban Mae Taman of Mae Tang.  Take a one-hour elephant ride through the rainforest, which for most people is an exciting and unforgettable experience and ride on a typical northern ox-cart through rural landscape.  After a picnic lunch embark on the inflatable rafts for an adventurous journey down the rapids in the white-water and scenic Mae Tang River for about an hour (dependable on the season).  Continue by the 4-wheel drive to Baan Huey Rai, passing several villages, orchards, valleys and rice fields.  Continue uphill via Saluang village to Baan Pang Hai, a simple village situated 850 metres above sea level.  Check-in at the HMONG HILLTRIBE LODGE, B.B.Q. dinner at the lodge, followed by a presentation of the Hmong dances and songs and overnight.
   
Day 02  Hmong Hilltribe Lodge (B/L/D)

After breakfast drive to a small village of Baan Teen Doi where you take a short stroll to Mae Pa.  Get into action by Mountain biking to Baan Palan.  Visit a small village reservoir and continue biking to Baan Pong Kwaw, where there is an old of temple with beautiful wall paintings.  Picnic lunch.  Drive by 4-WD on mountain roads through Baan Pok, Baan Pang Kwai and Baan Nong Hoi Mai.  Then get into action again by trekking or mountain biking from Nong Hoi Mai to Mae Khi village, where you can have coffee or tea in the Hmong’s kitchen.  Return to HMONG HILLTRIBE LODGE for dinner and overnight.
   
Day 03   Hilltribe Lodge – Chiang Mai  (B/L/-)

After breakfast depart the lodge by 4-wheel drive.  Visit Queen Sirikit’s Botanical Garden and an orchid farm on the way.  Lunch will be taken at a local restaurant.  Visit a snake farm before transfer to your hotel in Chiang Mai or to Chiang Mai Airport.