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Tours | Send inquiry | Sign up membership | Send your own trip plan TOUR 1: Khao Yai jungle walk and camping
This is partial independent trekking in the jungle using minimum provision and gear. We will provide you
limited support, and you will carry your own backpack, sleeping bag, drinking water and possibly part of the
foodstuff and shared gear. You are also welcome to do cooking together in the forest using dead wood.
The trip is either three or four full days walk, and group size is limited to 4 to 8. The trek starts at the part's border or at the visitor center, and ends at the other end of the park or the visitor center. You will walk through the jungle for total of 19 to 30 km. Sleeping is in tent or hammock. Moderate level trek with few/some scrambling, and walking over the stones in the streams. Drinking water is boiled stream water. We will provide:
When: the trip starts on Friday. In the dry season, October to May, we can select one from many available trails. However in the rainy season, June to September, only few to some trails could be walked. Starting on other days are possible if you have your own small group Send inquiry to get details and price. Look at status board for this trip. TOUR 2: Kaeng Krachan - Doi Phanoen Thung trek 
We will leave Bangkok in the evening on Friday and overnight in a small guesthouse close to Kaeng Krachan
national park. Saturday early morning we will enter the park and travel in a pick up truck to Phanoen Thung camp from
where we will walk the mountains to reach the summit of Doi Phanoen Thung. Next day we will walk back to the camp and
by pick up truck to Phetchaburi bus station. We will be back in Bangkok on Sunday night.
This is partially independent hiking and the group size is 4 to 8. It is of moderate level walk and you will carry your own back pack, sleeping bag, drinking water and part of provision. Drinking water is boiled stream water. If you don't want to carry a lot we can arrange a porter for you. We will provide:
When: the trip starts on Friday and ends on Sunday. Starting on other days are possible if you have your own small group. Send inquiry to get details and price. The trips details can be changed from above plan. Look at status board for this trip. TOUR 3: Umphang - White water rafting, walk to Thi Lor Su waterfall, Walk to the road, Karen village home stay and the waterfall on the high mountain 
This is somewhat adventure. We are going to a place where so far only few tourists have been to.
Besides we are going along a new uncharted route, mostly on foot and carrying own gear and food on our own
backs. Thus we seek only a small group of roughly four to six people who can rough and expect to spend a night more
in the forest if necessary. You will carry your own back pack, water bottle, sleeping bag, and share
load of common gear and food. This is rainy season trek.
Approximate travel plan Day 1: Leave Umphang about noon time (or morning) by inflatable rubber raft down the Mae Klong river, about 3 hours, to Tha Sai camp. Lunch is in town or during rafting. From where we will walk to Thi Lo Sau camp site. Dinner and overnight in tents.. Day 2: After the breakfast walk 1.5 km to Thi Lor Su waterfall. After the waterfall visit we will hike up the mountains to the top of the waterfalls. We will continue to walk to the west for about 6 hours to the road 1288. Lunch is made on the trail. Upon reaching the road we will be transported by pick up truck to a Karen village. Dinner and home stay. Day 3: Home breakfast. We will walk through the farmlands, passing streams and then hike Doi San Min mountains for about 4 hours to the falls of streams going down from the mountain peaks. We will camp at the bottom of the largest body of waterfall. Lunch and dinner are in the jungle. Day 4: Camp breakfast. Walking down the hill to the road will take about 3 hours. Get a pick up truck back to Umphang. We will provide:
Number of days we need to prepare the trip: 14 or more When: July to November Send inquiry to get more details. Look at status board for this trip as well as possible alternative plans. TOUR 4: Umphang - White water rafting, Ti Lo Su waterfall, Karen village home stay 
The program can start in Umphang, Mae Sot or in Bangkok. The rough plan below starts and ends in Umphang.
You will have chance to communicate with local Karen people, learn their life in addition to
river rafting, forest hiking and visiting one of Thailand's most beautiful waterfalls.
The group size is 4 to 8.
Day 1: You arrive Umphang. We will provide you dinner and room. Two person in one room with electricity, private bath room, running water. Today is free day and you will make friend with the guide, walk around the town or check your email at an Internet cafe. Day 2: Breakfast and leave Umphang in the morning in an inflatable rubber boat down the Mae Klong river. On the weay we will stop at Ti Lor Jor waterfall, hot water spring. If we have time we will also stop at a place to walk to explore a cave. Lunch on the way. Walk or pick up truck takes us to Ti Lo Su waterfall camp. After settling down our gear, provision; and setting up camp we will walk 1.5 km to Ti Lo Su waterfall. We could hike up to higher level. Dinner and camping in tents. Day 3: Camp breakfast. Break the camp and we will walk along the Ti Lo Su stream (easy walk) for 7 km to Ban Kotha (Karen village) where you will be mounted on elephants to comtinue into the forest. Elephants will take you to the foothills of a mountain. Then elephants will be sent back to the village. We will prepare our lunch of hot drink and sandwich or toast and fruits. After a short rest we will climb the mountain and go down on the other side to the paddy fields. After the farms we will arrive at a lovely Karen village of Ban Thi Po Gyi. Dinner and overnight home stay. Note you will carry only some first aid medicine, drinking water during the walk. All other stuff will be sent to the village by pick up truck. Day 4: Home breakfast. Early morning walk in the village to observe the people at their works: paddy pounding, cooking food for pigs and chickens, hand weaving, and so on. Also visit a primary school. We will then go for a visit to Lar Ee-Or twin lake. Pick up truck will send us as far as it can go, and we will walk to the lakes often visited by large groups of birds. After spending about an hour there we will walk back to the village. After having home-made lunch we will say good bye to the villagers and leave in a pick up truck. We will go back to Umphang. Near Ban Mae Klong Mai village we will stop and go inside the Takhobi cave complex. It may take about one hour. We will arrive Umphang in the afternoon. We will provide:
Please check a rough map of Umphang Number of days we need to prepare the trip: 10 or more When:Whole year, but in the rainy season the walk over muddy forest ground and hiking up the hill will be tougher than easy. Send inquiry to get more details. Look at status board for this trip as well as possible alternative plans. TOUR 5: Sangklaburi (Kanchanaburi province) to Umphang (Tak province) - Karen village homestay Multi day nature walk will pass Mountain Karen peoples' villages, their farms, streams and rivers. We will sleep in the village homes along the way. The trip along Thai - Myanmar border will be guided by Karen villagers. At each village you will have chance to have first hand experience of sustainable ways of simple lives maintaind by these monority tribes. There will be opportunities to communicate with them too. Approximate itinerary is:- Day 1: Bangkok to Sangklaburi by car leaving Bangkok in the morning. Driving time is about 6.5 hours. Today we will overnight in a guesthouse in town overlooking the lake. If time permits visit of interesting places in Kanchanaburi can be arranged. 
We will inform the village head and get permission to overnight in a house. The village has a small school, a monastery, and you will learn the lives of Karen people. Dinner and home stay. Day 3 Home breakfast. Leave the village for a walk to another village. We will walk about the same distance as previous day. Lunch is in the forest. Afternoon we will arrive at Thilaipa village where we will homestay. Walk around this beautiful village. Dinner and homestay. Day 4: Home breakfast. We will leave the village in the morning for another day of walk pasing streams to Jakae - today walk will be a bit longer. Lunch is on the way. Late afternoon we will arrive at Jakae village. Dinner and homestay. Day 5: Home breakfast. Continue walking through the forest. We will pass several streams and finally arrive at Suria river. Lunch is in the forest. Overnight will be in a hut. If necessary we will have to build or repair a bamboo shelter ourselves. Dinner and overnight. Day 6: Breakfast. Today we will walk into enter Umphang district of Tak province. Lunch is during the walk. Tonight stop is at Lay Tong Ku village. Day 7: Breakfast and we will spend the early morning time to visit the monastery where they keep a pair of elephant tusks as pieces of worship. Then we will leave for a half day walk to Pueng Klueng - a small Karen-Thai town at the border. Packed lunch. At Pueng Klueng we will get a pick up truck to travel to Umphang town there will stay at a guesthouse. Take a long hard shower. Free day. (B,L) At Umphang you can go back to Bangkok or continue to other places in Thailand by car. You will at first have to go to Mae Sot by pick up truck (162 km mountain road or rough 4 hours ride) from where you can go to Sukhothai, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, or Mae Hong Son, etc. We will provide:
When: October to April. One trip is being planned for starting in Bangkok on 11 April 2007 (Completed) Send inquiry to get details and price. You must have your own group of 2 to 6 people. Pictures of Karen villages in Sangklaburi and Umphang can be searched at www.ourweb.info/01/photos/thailand/ TOUR 6: Trek to Mokoju mountain peak (1964 meters above sea) in Mae Wong National Park - Kamphaeng Phet province Approximate plan 
Day 1: Leave Bangkok in a van to Maw wong national park - about 6 hours driving. Overnight in a bungalow house with bedding and bathroom - basic. Day 2 to Day 6 is walking to the peak and coming back. There are several river corssing, going up and down through bamboo and some thickly forested jungle. Everyone will carry his/her own backpack, drinking water container, light tent and sleeping bag, plus shared load of food and other gear. Campings are mostly on the bank of streams. The walk is said to be moderately hard. On Day 6 we will overnight again in the national park's bungalow style house. Day 7: Van car will take us back to Bangkok. We will provide:
Dates to go: middle of Nov 2007. We must send the name list and dates to the national park about 45 days ahead and get the permit. The exacct dates should be available at least one month ahead. How many people We need at least 5 people but not more than 10. You need to be fit and quite a outdoor type. Expect to walk 5 to 7 hours a day (roughly about 60 km in five days), walk through thick plants and branches with thorns, walking low under the trees or over the fallen logs, wade through the water, etc. Price: Thai Baht 8800/person Number of days we need to prepare the trip: 60 days. Send inquiry |