Almost shocked by the big city life in Chiang Mai, we book a 3-days\/2-nights \u201creal jungle experience\u201d: our guide \u201cJackie Chan\u201d is always giving us some explanations about the so many plants you can use as medicine. 12 people (7 from France and 4 from Netherlands) might be too much for a trek, but as we stop so often, it is not a big issue. This trek would be very amazing for kids to discover the nature. The trek is not really sportive: Aur\u00e9lien and experienced another rhythm in Hsipaw, Myanmar one month before. However, it seems it is just perfect for the more \u201ccity\u201d people in the group. It is anyway a lot of fun to play with slingshots, machete, putting some trap to get rat. Jackie shots a flying squirrel we enjoy in a soup at dinner. And in the next day, we taste a rat: surprising good, between chicken and rabbit! We stayed one night in a village disconnected from the city life: people live with their traditional techniques, separating the rice with a human driven tool without motor.<\/p>\n
More than a trek, we get other activities: in the beginning, we enjoy riding elephants for 40min on the 46y old Muthaka and her 15y old son Doddo. On the 3rd<\/sup> day, we leave the jungle for bamboo \u201crafts\u201d: on 3 rafts, our Brittany team (Aur\u00e9lien, G\u00e9raldine and I) play the Corsairs and pass the first raft in the river: a lot of fun! We have a bath not in this low level river but under a waterfall some kilometers further: the 100m waterfall is actually the biggest in Chiang Mai province.<\/p>\n Maybe because this trek was not enough physically challenging for me, I rent a mountain bike on the day after (24th<\/sup> of January). Starting quite late (by noon), I first take a pick-up to the Doi Suthep temple (10km up), and then bike the next 10km up to the summit (1653m). Down-hill, I enjoy the dirt road on the other side and even more some narrow bike trials. I finally bike on such trials through the forest for 40min on dusk. It is actually a bit of stress since I do not know if I can get out the forest before it goes dark. I end up in Mae Rim, 16km North from Chiang Mai. (Doi Suthep is more on the West) and arrive by 8pm in my GH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hunting (and eating) rat in the middle of the Thai jungle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[51,34,31],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand","tag-bicycle","tag-nature","tag-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31eG3-7K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric-creation.com\/wordpress\/travels\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}