EXCURSION TOURS FROM Maekok River Village Resort

Trekking with Overnight Stops

2 Day & 1 Night – Hill Tribe Trek in the Kok river valley area.

Tour ref. MRVR016

Degree of difficulty: Easy - Medium

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Day One: Depart Ban Thaton by vehicle for the Kuomingtong village of Ban Suk Re Tai on the foothills of the Mae Salong range. Trek uphill to the Akha village On Air, then down into the river valley where you spend the night in the Black Lahu village of Pa Lo.

Note* You need only carry a day pack, camera and water (bottles provided). Your overnight bag, plus sleeping bag, mosquito net, sleeping bag and food will be taken into you overnight stop by porters.

Day Two:

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After breakfast, trek through river line jungle via several different hill tribe villages ending the trek in the Shan settlement of Ban Mae Mokcham where a vehicle transports you back to Ban Thaton and the Maekok River Village Resort.

2 Day & 1 Night – A Botany Trek to Doi Pahom Phog – (blanket covered mountain) Thailand’s 2^nd highest mountain

Tour ref. MRVR027

Degree of difficulty: Medium - Hard

Meal Code - (Lunch. Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch )

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Day One.

After an early breakfast set off by 4WD for a 3 hour drive along difficult little used roads to a forestry station half way up Doi Pahom Phog. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the forestry base station station before setting off on foot, with a team consisting of our guide, a forest ranger and a number of porters. You ascend through virgin forest along trails linking forestry sub stations.

At a given band of altitude you find numerous species of little known and brighly coloured high altitude flowers. Further up, at 1500 metres above sea level you enter dense and damp evergreen forest, cool all year around, and with rocks covered in lichen and moss.

Sunlight rarely penetrates here and fern is abundant. Rare plants, Fagacaeg, Lauracaeg, Ericacaeg are found. Higher still you find Acanthacaeg, very rare and a good source of food for animals and humans alike. You overnight at a camp area.

Day Two.

After breakfast, set off for the windswept plateau at 2’856 metres above sea level, the top of Doi Pahom Phog. Rest awhile, enjoy the views, and then begin the descent along another equally beautiful trail. The area is fantastic for bird watching, and for viewing a wide range of flora. Many of the tress are not normally native to Thailand, their seeds having blown in from Burma, India and China.

Lunch on the way down at one of the forestry sub stations, then continue your descent until you reach a lower forestry sub station where you board your 4WD vehicle for the journey back to the resort.

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1 Nov 2006 - 31 October 2007