Chaing Mai trek - Day two - the journey continues

We headed off on day two minus 4 of our original group as one was sick and returned by car with her partner while the other two were taking a three day trek so headed a different way.

While the first part of the walking was easier on day two, we soon found out what a few hours of rain does in the mountains and I'm sure that most of the people slipped over at some stage....most us atleast once on the almost vertical walk down a very steep hill right next to a waterfall where we swam and played after about two hours of walking.

Luke was still the master of the walk and had organised new sticks for some but as there were less people now the group moved much faster.

We made our way across rice paddies and through open plains and thick jungle areas and occasionally passed by a small hut or farm or even village but generally just kept going on.

Being refreshed after our swim we walked another hour or two and eventually came to a point where we were met by a truck and were taken to lunch. After lunch it was on to an area where were were to go bamboo rafting and as if the river water was not enough to get us wet it began to pour and pour rain.

We did evntually make it onto the rafts and with two people sitting and one standing on each raft we made our way about 40 minutes down stream.

Jordan and I (David) sat the entire way on ur raft (Jordan did stand but literally only for the final 30 seconds) while Luke who was with Stephanie stood for the second half of the ride. Luke and Stephanie's raft driver had the motto of "no wet, no fun" so you can imagine what they ended up like....not that Jordan and I were much better.

The final truck trip back into Chiang Mai was fast (you could tell they were trying to get home for dinner!) amd we arrived around 4.40pm after a very rewarding and enjoyable two day adventure.

With one more day left for us in Chiang Mai, which we decided to take as a rest day before heading on to Chiang Rai as Jordan had a fever and we thought we could do with some time out while still staying at Anne and Sean's house.

David