"Chiang Mai - Great Base for Trekking" Chiang Mai by herzog63

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Hill Tribe Lady - Chiang Mai
Hill Tribe Lady
Chiang Mai - Awesome Trekking

Well this was 1984 so I'm sure things have changed so don't base a future trip off anything you read here. To get the same Awesome experience I've heard and read that you must go further afield. To tell you the truth I'm not exactly sure where my trek was. I do know that we drove a couple of hours north-east of the city..I think? LOL But in the General Tips you can read about my trek. It is such a great memory for me! I'm glad VT is here to give me the medium to share it. The other tips are for the City of Chiang Mai and surrounding areas. Sometime I'll come on here and re-arrange the tips. I've built and repaired this page 3 or 4 times and VT has switched things around. You will see the tips that end in "Part 1 part 2 etc..." Those are all from my trek in order. Vt has mixed everything up so the ones with out the Part are just tips from around the city. Sorry...I'll come on here sometime and fix it all up again!! But for now I hope you enjoy the trek! It is one of my great memories of traveling!!

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  • Last visit to Chiang Mai: Dec 1983
  • Intro Updated Jul 6, 2003
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    icyjo24's Profile Photo
    Dec 22, 2004 at 9:15 AM

    i could understand the 'sick' part.. i fell sick too during my 2002 trip in a remote part of northern Thailand..

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    Gili_S's Profile Photo
    Dec 13, 2004 at 4:23 AM

    Wow, that was an adventure, on a cold Finnish day it was nice to take this virtual tour on your page.

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    Hosell's Profile Photo
    Nov 3, 2004 at 6:53 PM

    Glad to know that you had a very nice trip!! I enjoyed very much to read about your adventures in Asia,I have to see it for myself someday!!!!

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    kyoub's Profile Photo
    Sep 10, 2004 at 3:53 AM

    What an interesting trek and well written page. I sure wouldn't enjoy sleeping on mud floors but then you was very young.

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    dr.firas's Profile Photo
    Feb 11, 2004 at 3:36 AM

    HA HA HA HA This time Scotty I'ma say you're a great writer! what a scene with Chapters! great page! ;-D

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    Jan 21, 2004 at 3:08 PM

    Wow, hilltribe trekking in 1984. How cool is that!!! Nowadays you have to visit Laos or Burma for authentic hilltribe experiences.

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    Bohemedream's Profile Photo
    Nov 4, 2003 at 3:09 PM

    Scott, awesome pages !!! Trying to plan the next trip and have plenty of info from your pages alone !!! Thanks!!

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    eden_teuling's Profile Photo
    Oct 16, 2003 at 2:17 AM

    the early hrs. of a day: always the best! and isn't new year special, wherever you are? and it all becomes memories, most sweet, some sad, but memories...thanks for perfect trek page, Scott. bes-elisabeth

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    Aug 19, 2003 at 8:59 AM

    Superb page, Scott! The shy baby photo is cute! Those hill tribe people are interesting! Have you seen a long neck tribe in there? or is it in another place...

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    nigelw6443's Profile Photo
    Aug 13, 2003 at 1:53 AM

    Are you sure that was tobacco? I did a trek in the north from Chiangmai and most of the village men seemed to smoke a bit of weed or opium.

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