Claire & Melanie's Global Trek

Collected on a truck and drove 50km North of Chiang Mai to Mae Wang. Were presented on arrival with our elephant's! Claire and I got our own elephant and driver! Went through different villages where each of the locals sold bags of banana's for the elephant. We bought one and fed our hungry elephant! He kept throwing is trunk back everytime we fed him a banana! We went through the river, up dirt treks, and through jungles! After trek, we had "thai lunch" and then started our trek with bags on back!
There were two other families with us including an 8 year old who seemed to be more fit then us! Worked up 2hrs worth of sweat and arrived at a waterfall where we had a dip to cool off! After 30 mins back on the trek again, uphill and through the jungle!

Arrived at the Karen tribe at 5:30! There were two manmade huts with the roof made out of leaves tied together with what looked like strips of bamboo! Quite Amazing! They also had a pet pig!
The dinner was at 7:30 so we had some time to relax and talk to the locals! We checked out our bedroom suite, (see pictures), which was "upstairs" with 10 sleeping bags and few mosquito nets to protect us!

Dinner was quite nice, after that we talked to other families and got ready for bed which was an experience! In the pitch dark we had to go to the "toilet" with our flashlight and toilet paper!