2 Day Mountain Biking Chiang Mai Tour
Posted on July 07, 2011 by Dave W
There is no greater way to obtain a truly accurate cultural insight of an area than on two wheels.
Mountain Biking from Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao, Thailand and back with its rugged topography, untouched forests, and traditional hill tribe settlements is the ultimate off-road bicycle tour experience. Off-road bicycle trails allow for undemanding bicycling so that you can really appreciate it all. Although the bicycling is easy, you do want to have some biking proficiency as you don’t want to be learning how to bike right before this bicycle tour.
After a pretty good breakfast and swift pick-up from your Chiang Mai hotel, everyone in the group are introduced to tough and well-maintained mountain bikes. Your cycling accessories such as helmets, bike shorts, and shoes are bound to be comfy because they will be yours, the ones that you bought or brought out with you for the Chiang Mai cycling adventure tour!
A stimulation for all the senses with exotic scenery, matchless encounters and a blend of natural aromas, this 2 Day Mountain Bike Adventure extracts you from your regular normality and places you squarly in a rural environment, an age away from your own. Previous clients said that it is like being on the film set of a fantastic film in which fantasy flora and fauna swing to the tropical rhythm with brightly coloured butterflies fluttering and flitting against a brilliant background.
A thousand songs bestow the background music as birds serenade you. All this occurs as the bicycle tour group cycle through rugged jungle occasionally catching a peek at Thailand’s 3rd highest peak. This experience is so cool that you will continually think, ?Wow! Oh wow! Wow!?. Don a little helmet camcorder and record all the action as you become your own movie producer.
Chiang Dao Elephant Camp
Far flung, expansive and wild, Chiang Dao is home to Thailand’s first elephant camp in an area where in bygone times elephants toilled in logging camps. While logging has now been outlawed, tourists represent a real lifeline for Asian Elephants and the Chiang Dao Elephant Camp gets you up-close and personal with these gentle giants in their authentically natural environment. See working elephant displays, interact with the elephants and observe them bathing in the Ping River.
Elephants are delightful, creatures with their protruding, multi-purpose proboscis used for lifting, stretching for food way up in the canopy, and even as a power shower to give themselves and each other a refreshing bath. Elephants can regulate the shower pressure accordingly as well! Want a tropical rain shower? No problem. Just spray less. Want a serious fire-hydrant style sluice down? No worries, just blast away! But beware. When it comes to an elephant power shower, staying dry as a bone as an innocent onlooker is not assured!
Mother elephants and baby elephants have a unique rapport. It’s just way too cute to see them interacting with each other as the mother elephants try to clean their off-spring and the baby elephants just want to play. Well, it’s pretty much the same as humans except that their tub is much bigger than ours. Everyone loves elephants and to be able to gawk at them in their habitat is not only a photo opportuntiy but an encounter that you’ll be remembering for the rest of your days.
Hmong Pha Mieng, Lahu, Lisu and Akkha Villages
Hugging extreme ridges and boasting awesome mountain views is the small, remote Hmong Pha Mieng village. Follow the trail a little further and the Lahu village Kup Kap materialises. Swimming, embroidery, observing and maybe even helping out with some organic gardening, are just among some of the everyday life activities that you’ll most likely get to indulge in as you hang out with the inhabitants of these villages. Exchange your bike for a buffalo ride or an elephant ride and travel local style.
Ethnic Minorities and their Villages in Northern Thailand
In western culture, we have grown accustomed to expecting a particular level of comfort from our residences; natural light, amenities and various conveniences. Whilst you go along the mountain biking trails of Northern Thailand you see in the Hill Tribes people a different way of life; a bucolic lifestyle bound by old traditions and customs which is far less convoluted than our own.
Built on wooden stilts, rudimentary verandahs spill into one main communal area with a range normally being located at the back of the room that has Bamboo walls, a rattan floor, thatched roof and handmade interior decorations and curios. There is no architectural cloning nor prefabricating up here and no two villages are the same. Instead each hill tribe village has a certain uniqueness inspired and inherited through generations of customs and heritage.
For most of the hill tribes people of Northern Thailand survival is at a subsistence level; they grow what they eat with little left over to sell. They do have an opportunistic flare though and up until fairly recently poppies were a popular cash crop! These little horrors have subsequently been replaced by flower cultivation of a less toxic kind, tea, coffee and other products as a result of a project introduced by the King of Thailand. Hill Tribes people also utilise long-established talents to produce cultural handicrafts which are sold. While some Thailand tours unsympathetically descend on pre selected hill tribes villages in their droves, the mountain biking Chiang Mai tour wins again by being able to follow less travelled mountain bike trails in our quest for authenticity and responsible travel.
The mountain biking Chiang Mai tour is an incredible experience in itself yet to be introduced to the people of the villages and to interact with them in a natural setting just slams the exclamation mark on to this fascinating two-day bike trip. Pictures dont do justice. Words dont do justice. The lives of the Hill Tribes people of Northern Thailand are not only isolated geographically but so far removed from our world.
The 2 Day Mountain Biking Chiang Mai Tour
This bicycle tour from Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao in the North of Thailand is a perfect family adventure with easy bicycling following off-road mountain bike trails. To really grasp the incredible mountain biking, the mountainous landscape, the authentic rural life and the overall cultural immersion a realisticlevel of fitness and Cyling experience is recommended for this active 2 day Chiang Mai tour.
Highlights of this adventure Bicycling tour include staying overnight at a hill tribe lodge with the Padang, exploring the Chiangdao caves, watching elephants and, of course, the stunning scenery. The cycling tour is ideally suitable for family fun and a support vehicle follows the cycle tour at all times. On the whole if you are going to Chiang Mai on your vacation and are searching for inspiring mini adventures from Chiang Mai, this 2 day mountain bike family adventure certainly is certainly one to consider.
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does anyone know where you can get a free mountain bike from?? without stealing lol?
I’m starting college and i’m looking for a mountain bike that i can take off someones hands to go to college on and for general fitness! we are quite short of cash because we have a young child and we cant really afford anything at the moment. I have looked all over and don’t know where else to look. I could probably stretch for the delivery of it, if anyone has got any suggestions please reply. thanks.
Answer
Try your local Yahoo Freecycle group – nothing to do with bicycles but they exchange free stuff.
Have you looked around the car-boot sales? I don’t know where you live but in my area there are a fair few cheap bikes for sale. You could buy a reasonable adult bike for under £20.
Avoid BSO’s (bike-shaped-objects – looks good from a distance but is made of plastic and tinfoil) and keep your eyes open for brand name bikes like Specialized, Giant, Muddy Fox, Dawes, etc.. Apollos and Raleighs are okay (modern Raleighs are NOT made by Raleigh and the quality is much poorer) but they are rubbish compared to real bikes.
It doesn’t matter if the bike is dirty, rust is bad but even that won’t kill a good quality bike. A good clean up and a squirt of oil is often enough to resurrect an old bike.
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Glenny
- 3rd Dec, 11 02:12am
Hello, just wanted to say, I liked this blog post. It was practical. Keep on posting!
Dave W (author comment)
- 3rd Dec, 11 08:12am
Hi Glenny,
Thanks for your support!
Keep Moving
Dave W