"Bamboo rafting" Top 5 Page for this destination Chiang Mai Tourist Trap Tip by SumTingWong

OK in all honesty I include bamboo rafting under tourist traps. I have done this once before in Northern Chiang Mai province and I wasn't that impressed. There are two main reasons as to why:

1) This type of tourism is really hurting the natural bamboo in the jungles, the higher the demand for this tourism activity, the more bamboo is wasted. The rafts are built once and not used again. Waste!

2) Rubber rafting is a lot more fun! On the bamboo rafts you have to stand the whole time as you get cold, hot, wet, annoyed, and bitten by spiders and mosquitoes. You get tossed easily on rapids and by the end the rafts fall apart into junk.

Fun Alternatives: Go rubber rafting. It was a lot more fun!!!!! You can sit, relax, and experience the white water adventures of northern Thailand. You have a better time steering (not with bamboo sticks) and it is just a lot more fun!!