Day 4 Chiang Mai - Mae Taeng - Elephant Riding -Ox-carting - Rafting (B,L)
am Breakfast. Travel by bus to Mae Taeng ( one and a half hour drive). Elephant riding into the valley of Mae Taeng for about 1/2 hrs., and ox-carting to visit Mae Taman Village. Buffet lunch at the
Elephant
Nature
Park
pm Enjoy bamboo rafting ) for about one hour.
15.30 Return to Chiang Mai, transfer to the hotel.
evening Visit to the Night Bazaar, the center for handicraft products.
Overnight at Empress Hotel
Day 5 Chiang Mai - Doi Inthanon - Hiking & Bird Watching - Mae Chaem (B,L,D)
am Breakfast. Travel to Doi Inthanon, the tallest
mountain
of
Thailand
(2,565 m. above the sea level). Short visit to the Karen terrace rice field and Hmong Hilltribes' Fruits & Flowers Market before going to the summit for nature walk at Ang Ka nature trail.
12.00 Lunch. After lunch hiking at Kiew Mae Pan nature trail for about 2 hrs. Then continue the trip to Mae Chaem .
Dinner & overnight at local hotel.
Day 6 Mae Chaem - Village Life –
Forest
Cottage (B,L.D)
am Breakfast . Village tour in Mae Chaem District - Tong Fai for hand weaving clothes, Pa Dad and Yang Luang for village life, and some interesting local temples. Then continue the trip to check into the Forest Cottage, located in a beautiful landscape near Ob Luang.
Dinner & overnight at the Forest Cottage.
Day 7 Forest Cottage -
Ob
Luang - Pre-historic Rock Painting - Wat Phra That Sri Chomthong – Chiang Mai (B,L)
am Breakfast. Travel to Ob Luang National Park with short visit to Thep Panom Hot Spring. Nature walk in Ob Luang National Park - observe the amazing & beautiful gorge of Ob Luang and hike to visit the pre-historic rock painting (about 1 hour for the round trip )
12.00 Lunch at the food shop in the park.
pm Return to Chiang Mai with short visit to Wat Phra That Sri Chomthong, one of the most revered temple in Chiang Mai and visit the handicraft
village
of
Ban Tawai
Dinner at the restaurant in Chiang Mai and overnight at Empress Hotel
Day 8 Individual Discovery Around Chiang Mai - Return to
Bangkok
by Train (B)
am Breakfast at hotel and free day for your own discovery of Chiang Mai until 15.00
16.25 Take the train back to
Bangkok
(2nd class air-cond. sleeper )
Overnight on the train.
Day 9
Bangkok
am Arrive Bangkok, transfer to the hotel in
Bangkok