3 Day Hill Tribe Trek

We were each equipped with a walking stick, did some stretches and started the trek, which on the first day was about 4 hours to our overnight accommodation near a waterfall.

Our porters were from the hill tribe village we were visiting who speak a different language to Thai – their nicknames were Superman and Superboy which were easy enough to remember.

It was pretty tough going as it was mostly uphill and even worse once the rain started to come as it made the mud super slippy and I nearly went on one occasion. A few people were more unfortunate and ended up caked in mud, which I can imagine was not too pleasant.

Superman caught some big tarantula and pulled its fangs out so that It couldn't bite before proceeding to place it on us to try and scare people before placing it in a bottle to fry and have for dinner later - yummm!

They also did a bit of mushroom picking when we came across some, which we had in our dinner. I haven't got a clue what mushrooms they were but they tasted good.

It was a hard slog to our accommodation next to a waterfall in a basic hut where we had to wash in the river as we were in the middle of the jungle.

more coming soon - stay tuned!!!