(3 Days Lisu and Lanna Experience)

Itinerary

Day 1: Lisu Lodge (L, D)

Arrival at Lisu Lodge. A traditional welcome drink will be served followed by a briefing. We will propose a choice of activities and you can decide how you want to spend the afternoon.

Our Lisu guide will then take you for a walk through the village. You will start from the Ton Lung temple to view the herbal garden and visit some local families with a stop for a cup of tea and a spot of traditional medicine at the shaman’s house.

Return to Lisu Lodge for a tasty Thai Lunch.

After lunch visit the cultural center created by the villagers, where you will find a collection of typical household items and tools used by the Lisu and Akha mountain tribes.

During the afternoon you have a choice of activities:

• Guided bike tour around the Lisu Lodge area.

• Steam bath.

• Massage.

• Ox-cart ride through farmlands and orchards to the Thai village of Baan Pang Mai Daeng - about an hour ending up back at Lisu Lodge.

Time at leisure until the Thai dinner with a traditional Lisu dance show.

Overnight at Lisu Lodge

Day 2:  Lisu Lodge - Khum Lanna (B, L, D)

Breakfast at the Lodge.

Start an exciting day with an easy 13 kilometers (8 miles) of cycling to the Elephant Camp.

Enjoy an hour of elephant riding through the mountainous jungle scenery down to the river.

After a healthy picnic lunch on the bank of the river you will go on an exciting ride, about 45 minutes of white water rafting that takes you a traditional Thai country village.

From there you proceed to Khum Lanna. Upon arrival, as a welcome drink, enjoy a refreshing herbal tea or fruit juice from the bountiful gardens of Khum Lanna itself.

Check-in to your room.

Briefing to decide on your activities for the following morning.

17:00 : Thai cooking introduction; get a free Khum Lanna recipe book and start a first lesson to learn to prepare an authentic Thai meal (4 dishes). All the major ingredients in Thai cooking are introduced along with the concept of balancing the 5-flavor groups.

Time at leisure until dinner.

Enjoy the Thai dinner that you helped prepare yourself.

Overnight at Khum Lanna.

Day 3:  Khum Lanna (B, L)

05:30 : Coffee/tea will be brought to your room for your wake-up call before the sunrise biking along the rural country road via San Kwang village to Phrao to visit an early morning local market where local coffee is available. With the help of your guide you may buy local cookies and flower garlands for the temple offering on the way back.

Then you visit a farmer’s rice and traditional tools shop, chat with the owner, and learn more about the rice legends and differences & properties of the varieties of rice. Your local escort will translate. Bike back to Khum Lanna with a stop to visit Wat Pa. Pay respect to the Buddha image under the sacred tree.

Continue biking to Khum Lanna along the local canal through the rice fields and get more information about the rice-growing process and the important place that rice occupies in Thai life.

Refreshment or shower before breakfast is served at 09:00.

10:00 : Enjoy the preparation for a Lanna country-style BBQ lunch with a garden tour around the compound; collect different seasonal herbs, vegetables and fruits for cooking.

11:00 : A hands on demonstration of a Lanna country-style BBQ lunch.

In the afternoon, we provide you with a choice of one-hour activities:

• Guided biking tour around Khum Lanna.

• Fruit (or vegetable) carving.

• Local style personal herbal steam bath.

• Hot-pressed herbal massage (consisting of 8 kinds of herbs: ginger, zingiber, lemongrass, plantain, tamarind leaves, soap pod, camphor and Aom Kiew).

Notes: A second additional 1-hour activity can be booked at a nominal charge but as a free activity you are welcome to go cycling by yourself and we will give you a road book of recommended itineraries.

16:00 : End of program.

Price per person in Thai Baht (Min. 2 pax)
 

Price includes:

• English-speaking guide during visit.

• Tours and activities: Elephant riding (1 elephant = 2 persons), Rafting (1 rubber boat = 4-5 persons) and cycling.

• Your choice of one activity at Lisu Lodge: biking or oxcart or steam bath or massage.

• Your choice of one activity at Khum Lanna: biking or carving or steam bath or massage.

• Accommodation in non air-conditioned room with electric fan at Lisu Lodge and Khum Lanna based on half twin-bedded room.

• Meals as specified.

• Baggage handling.

• Local open-air truck for activity.

Price Excludes:

• Transfer from Chiang Mai airport or hotel to Lisu Lodge or v.v.

• Airfares and airport taxes.

• Other meals and services than those mentioned in the program.

• Personal expenses

OPTIONAL TRANSFER RATES CHIANG MAI TO LISU LODGE OR V.V