Chiang Mai

So, after the the Extreme Mountain Biking, Moni and I decided to do a days trek. Just a nice walk through the National Parks surrounding Chiang Mai - great.

What we got obviously, was something more like Extreme Jungle Mountain climbing....

I swear I am not making this up and I'm not just being a girl. It was the hardest bloody walk EVER!! We went right into the National Park jungle and the guides seemed to make up the trail as they went along, cutting bits off trees to mark where we'd been, hopefully so that if we walked in a circle we would know about it.

After an hour of falling down the mountain we came to the waterfall. We all jumped in as we were so hot and dirty and were happily swimming about and breathing normally again when a young girl spotted a snake in the water so we all got out sharpish!!

Noodles were served for lunch and then we started trekking again. Obviously this time we had to go up to the top of a mountain and after about 30 minutes of walking one German guy turned blue and almost stopped breathing. We had a little rest and then carried on, up and up and then down and down and then up and up again. There was no real track for us to follow and there were some really hairy bits were there'd be a steep drop into the jungle on one side so you couldn't really put a foot wrong!

Luckily we all finished the trek and the guides told us that we were the first group to finish it. Most people give up at the waterfall and opt for the elephant ride. I think we all wished we had known that was an option...!

The water turned a dark shade of brown when I had a shower and my sponge also turned brown, time for a new one.