Community Based Tourism (Tour code CBT 4):
Exploring White Karen Village
Ban Nam Hoo - Ban Huai Goong

Morning:
Depart from your hotel or resort, travel by 4WD along dirt road! First visit the most beautiful viewpoint in Maehongson. Take a panoramic view of mountain. Continue driving to Ban Nam Hoo, visit a tiny Karen village which the local still living in the traditional way of life. Afterwards, meet local guide. Start trekking through the fertile forest area. On the way enjoy the brautiful bamboo forest area. Take a break at Nam Hoo waterfall. Then continue your trek to the second village at Ban Huai Goong. Having lunch here and after lunch enjoy swimming and bathing in Mae Samat river.

Afternoon:
Continue our trek through the fertile jungle. This part of the trail is going up the mountain some part is very steep. Late afternoon arrive at park ranger. Drop local guide at their village, goodbye and then reture to your hotel hotel or resort.

Trekking time:
About 3 hrs in the morning
2.5 hrs in the afternoon

Service include:
English speaking guide, 4WD, CBT trekking fee, Local Karen lunch, Drinking water, Local guide.

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Community Based Tourism (Tour code CBT 3):
White Karen community
Ban Huai Hee / Mae Hong Son

Morning:
Depart from your hotel or resort, travel by 4WD along dirt road! First visit the most beautiful viewpoint in Maehongson. Take a panoramic view of mountain. Cotinue driving to Ban Huai Hee. Upon arrival meet local guide. Start trekking through the Doi Pui. The elevation starts from 1,000 m. to 1,722 m. Local guide will take us to visit fertile forest area. On the way enjoy the beautiful wild orchid conservation area. Learn about Karen traditional medicine and forest conservation project.

Lunch:
Karen jungle lunch at Doi Pui camp site.

Afternoon:
Continue our trek through the fertile jungle. This part of the trail is going down to the village. Late afternoon arrive at village center. Visit the site of rotational farming and see the local handmade Karen weaving clothes. Then reture to your hotel or resort.

Trekking time:
About 2.5 hrs in the morning
2.5 hrs in the afternon.

Service include:
English speaking guide, 4WD, CBT trekking fee, Local Karen lunch, Drinking water, Local guide.

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Community Based Tourism (Tour code CBT 2):
Shan (TAI) community
Ban Mae Lana / Pang Mapha

Morning:
After your breakfast depart to visit CBT area. On the way enjoy the beautiful mountain road and stop over at viewpoint to have a look at misty valley. And then arrive at Ban Mae Lana, meet local guide and leave for the trek. During your trek, local guide will take us to visit the conservation forest area, Coral cave and area to collect the herbal medicine.

Lunch: Having jungle lunch (Local Shan).

Afternoon:
Return to the village to exploring the village area, begin to visit a village temple then visit place where they make the traditional sesame oil making, rice paddy field until late afternoon then say good bye to the villagers and reture to resort.

Trekking time:
About 2.5 hrs in the morning
2.5 hour in the afternoon

Service include:
English speaking guide, Transportation, CBT trekking fee, Local lunch, Drinking water, Local guide.

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Community Based Tourism (Tour code CBT 1):
Black Lahu community
Ban Jabo / Pang Mapha

Morning:
After your breakfast depart to visit CBT area. On the way enjoy the beautiful mountain road and stop over at viewpoint to have a look at misty valley. Afterwards, arrive at meeting point where the local guide from Black Lahu village at Ban Jabo is waiting to lead you on the trek. Prepare for trekking to the limestone mountain area and rotational farming.

Lunch: Having jungle lunch.

Afternoon:
Continue the trek to visit Pre-historic "Coffin Cave" where it contains the wood coffin aging around 1500-2000 years old. Afterwards, visit the Lahu cultivation area and "Lan Ja Kru" where the local ceremony is done. Late afternoon say goodbye to the local guide and villagers. Reture to your hotel or resort.

Trekking time:
About 2.5 hrs. in the morning
1.5 hrs. in the afternoon

Service include:
English speaking guide, Transportation, CBT trekking fee, Local Lahu lunch, Drinking water, Local guide.

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TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT TREKKING (Tour code T-21)
Departs : 9:00 a.m.
Returns : 4:00 p.m.

HIGHLIGHT INCLUDE ;
• Elephant riding
• Fish cave forest park
• Shan village
• Jungle walk approx 3 hours to Lisu village
• Jungle walk approx 2 hours to shan village
• Long-necked Karen village
• Bamboo rafting

DETAIL ;
Day 1 ; This trips takes 15 minutes to elephant camp for riding the elephant through the jungle for 1 hour. After that takes a car for 30 minutes to Fish cave forest park. After that take 15 minutes to Shan village and 1 hours walking through the jungle to Shan village for lunch. Afternoon 3 hours walking through the jungle to visit Lisu hilltribe. (Dinner and Stay overnight)
Day 2 ; Breakfast at the Lisu village, Start walking through the jungle 3 hours to Shan village. (Lunch is provide) After that take 15 minutes to visit Long-necked village. After that take 30 minutes to suspension bridge for take 1.30 hours on bamboo rafting on the Pai river and 15 minutes back to town.

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ONE DAY TREKKING (Tour code T-1)
Departs : 9:00 a.m.
Returns : 4:00 p.m.

HIGHLIGHT INCLUDE ;
• Fish cave forest park
• Shan village
• Jungle walk approx 3 hours to Lisu village
• Jungle walk approx 2 hours to shan village
• Long-necked Karen village

DETAIL ; This trips takes 30 minutes to Fish cave forest park. After that takes a car for 30 minutes to Shan village and 3 hours walking through the jungle to visit Lisu hilltribe. (Lunch is provide) After that 2 hours walking through the jungle to Shan village. After that takes a car for 15 minutes to visit Long-necked village and take a car for 30 minutes to Maehongson

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THAILAND, the land of amazing culture and nature heritage, is physically assorted with tropical lowland to montane evergreen and deciduous forests, with a maxture of pine, scrub and freshwater swamp forests, which mingle as very fine shelter of wildlife of all kinds. Thailand is well recognized by avid birdwatchers as one of the most birrich countries in the world.

The country is an important area for its local and wide variety of migrant birds from Northern Eurasia. Birds are abundant with some 955 species already observed, the number of which exceed all of those found in Europe or North America. Sighting of more species is still expected. Most of the birds found here are the shared species and subspecies residing in Thailand and in the plains of Myanmar to the west, the Indochina in the east and Malaysia in Southern peninsula.

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7 day advanced training course in northern Thailand

This 5-7 Day Jungle Expedition training course is aimed at those who work or travel in the rainforest or looking at planning their own ventures into the unknown. The Instructors will teach you the essential skills required to survive and live in unforeseen circumstances or events in remote jungle areas. The first night will be spent in Maehongson, Thailand before traveling to Green Wood Garden Adventure Camp, a 1 hour bumpy journey by car and foot to a remote jungle area. Set far from any disturbances and surrounded by many types of different forest types it is a perfect setting. With the exception of a couple of small Hill Tribe villages, Maehongson's forest areas remains pretty much uninhabited.

Upon arrival at the Camp, the first 1 ½ days will be spent learning theoretical skills such as emergency procedures, navigation and expedition guidelines, and then putting them into practice on practical trainings, e.g. using only the contents of your survival kits and machete. Skills taught will include: Abseiling, river crossing, navigation & GPS use, emergency procedures and essential skills such as:
Water – The most essential element of any survival situation, you will learn about water collection and sources, as well as purification methods – both modern and improvised.

Shelter – Construction of jungle shelters made from natural materials

Fire – Fire building using ancient and modern fire starting skills.

Signaling – If you want to be found, you need to be seen. You will be taught how to attract the attention of search parties.

Food – Food procurement from both flora and fauna. Traps, fishing and edible plants. Also emergency medicinal sources.

The course is aimed required by those wanting to come on expedition with us but also at anyone interested of learning those skills. This will be a very arduous and tiring course both mentally and physically, so students need to be physically fit, and prepared to face up to the rigors of this beautiful but challenging environment.

Courses can be adapted in length and instructions regarding your special requests.

Thailand is in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is a land great natural beauty and biodiversity. Its wild places vary from high mountain ranges in the North and Northeast, to an alluvial central plain, astonishing rain forest in the south and two coastlines the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Thailand is positioned in a biological crossroads where the continent's mountain sweeps down to the plains and sea. It makes the country contained the richest variety of flora and fauna in Asia.

You can find animals & and plants from Malaysia, Indonesia in the south peninsula and from China & Himalayas in the north. So trekking in Thailand is exciting and amazing for all nature lovers. Most of the wilderness areas are in the national parks, which are scattered all over the country. Visitors can choose to trek in different areas and different seasons of Thailand in which you can appreciate the beauty and charm this land has to offer.

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About Greenwood Garden Eco-Lodge:

Greenwood Garden is an eco-adventure lodge and retreat center located in Huay Unn Valley of Mae Hong Son,on the southern border of Thampla-Phasua Waterfall National Park.

The lodge will have a main building and 5 Bungalow style villas, each designed, build and funished using local materials, including hardwoods, stone, and clay. The interior funishings and decorations of each villa are unique to a specific culture (i.e. Balinese, Shan, Thai, Hill-Tribe, etc.), including funiture pieces, bedding, decor, art, and textiles.

The lodge hosts individual guests and special interest groups, including adventure travelers, naturalists, educators students, mountain bikers, off-road riders, enduro riders, photographers, painters, botanists, entomologists, ornithologists, and zoologists, to name a few. Yoga, meditation, other personal healing and fitness retreats can reserve the lodge exclusively for their groups.

About Greenwood Garden Organic Farm:

Greenwood Garden also operates a year round organic farm, called the Greenwood Garden Organic Farm, a sustainable agriculture project. Foods grown on the farm are used to feed camp guests and staff during the operating months. The Greenwood Garden Organic Farm includes vegetable and herb gardens, fruit orchards, a fish farm a coffee plantation and livestock.

The farm will operate as a cooperative (Owner co-op), which will be co-owned and managed by a selected group of local farmers from the area.

A "Food For The Community" program will be established, in which a percentage of the foods harvested will be available to the Shan and Lisu communities.

Select fruits, vegetables and herbs will be sold at the local market in MaeHongSon to finance and support the farm operation. Future plans include growing and exporting organic coffee and select organic nuts, herbs, spices, vegetables and tropical fruits to ChiangMai or BangKok.

"Tell me and I will forget
Show me and I may remember
Invole me and I wikk understand"

Parts of the tour belong to our adventure based learning program. By using an adventure setting for our activities you benefit from a tool which is extremely effective in developing and altering knowledge, abilities and attitudes. The nature of adventure activities is to draw upon the physical and emotional resources of the participants from which the learning are derived. These adventure challenges can be sought through various forms: workshops, games, sports or challenging ropes courese. Each activities formulation to parallel the culture, nature and interactions found in the workplace as well as incorporating a high level of fun. Futhermore, adventure training adheres to recognized of prociples of progression, human relations, psychology and management.

Adventure based learning activities:

To keep this tour a unique experience we are running different activities on every tour giving you a chance to learn from a wild range of jungle skills. Such activities could be;
Create handicrafts from nature materials.
Learning about food from the jungle and how to prepare it.
Help building a ancient mud house.
How to traditionally plant and harvest rice.
Preparing a campfire and cooking in the jungle.
Jungle survival course.
Ropes course and abseiling.
Wildlife watching.

The activities you carry out will be decided by your tour leader during the tour in order to your desire, weather condition and local circumstances. Our aim is to get you actively involved with the local techniques used to live in the jungle. Trek this great opportunity to learn more about jungle style living and yourself in unique place and friendly people.

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Airport in Mae Hong Son, Thailand

About Greenwood Garden Lodge:

Greenwood Garden is an eco-adventure lodge and retreat center located in Huay Unn Valley of Mae Hong Son,on the southern border of Thampla-Phasua Waterfall National Park.

The lodge will have a main building and 5 Bungalow style villas, each designed, build and funished using local materials, including hardwoods, stone, and clay. The interior funishings and decorations of each villa are unique to a specific culture (i.e. Balinese, Shan, Thai, Hill-Tribe, etc.), including funiture pieces, bedding, decor, art, and textiles.

The lodge hosts individual guests and special interest groups, including adventure travelers, naturalists, educators students, mountain bikers, off-road riders, enduro riders, photographers, painters, botanists, entomologists, ornithologists, and zoologists, to name a few. Yoga, meditation, other personal healing and fitness retreats can reserve the lodge exclusively for their groups.

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About Greenwood Garden Eco-Park and Private Reserve:

Greenwood Garden Eco-Park & Private Reserve (200 acres of primary and secondary forest), located adjacent to the Farm, will be placed under protection and established as a Wildlife Refuge and Private Reserve. Greenwood Garden Eco-Park & Private Reserve will serve as an attraction to lodge guests, as well as special interest groups and local student groups to explore and utilize for eco-adventure activities, educational & expeditions and over-night camping trips on plaforms in the middle of the rainforest. An entry fee will be charged to access the reserve, and self-guided and guided tours will be available for lodge guests.

Maehongson, the misty mountain town of Thailand, has nurtured glorious cultural. Although hundreds of years have passed, the traces of such wonderful heritages from The ThaiYai people, the indigeneous people of Mae Hong Son, can still be seen everywhere in this town of lofty peaks - in the ancient archeological buildings, objects. The art. The petfectly preserved architectural works reflect people’s faith in Buddhism, the unique ThaiYai culture reflects the great legacy that nurtures this heavenly mountain town and delights all visitors with its enchanting beauty

The “Veneration Ceremony to the Buddha at the nine temples in the heavenly hill” offers the opportunity for the local people and the visitors to make merits and donations to many sacred places in Mae Hong Son province. The merit - makings will bring good fortune, peace of mind, and the sites honored by Mae Hong Son people. I would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to join us in paying respect to the nine temples for good blessings for yourself and your family.

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Spa Services

Baths : spas provide a number of bathing options: hot baths to improve blood circulation, cold baths to refresh mind and body, mineral baths to noutish the skin, and flotation baths to relax and rejuvenate the body.

Steam : dry steam helps the body eliminate toxins through perspiration, while wet steam moisturizes the skin and improves the respiratiry system.

Massage : spas offer a variety of massage treatments that reduce muscle pain, allevate stress and improve blood circulation.

Exercise : a variety of exercises available at spas help refresh the body and burn energy. Low-intensity exercise options, like yoga and aquatic exercise, improve strengh and flexibility, and have become increasingly popular among spa patrons.

Herbal nutrition : spas emphasize the benefits of organic herbal foods and beverages, which contain essential antioxidants to cleanse the body. Herbs are also used in other nutrition therapies and in conbination with beauty and health treatments.

History of Mae Hong Son City

In the past, Mae Hong Son was formerly calles, "Mae Rong Son" which means a stream used for bathing and training of wild elephants. It was previously a forest settlement of Tai Yai. A villager named "Shan Ka Lae" initiated the native people to settle together in a place which they than established as "Khun Yuam" village. In 1874, the village developed into a town and the name was changed into "Mae Hong Son". Later, Prince Inthawichayanont of Chiang Mai realized the guardianship ability of Shan Ka Lae and promoted him to be Phraya Singhanat Raja, the first governor of Mae Hong Son.

The province of Mae Hong Son is the only province in the entire country that has been selected as one of the ten livable and beautiful cities in the world, is comprised of about 12,682 sq.km. making it the 7th largest province in the country. It consiste of 7 districts, namely:

Muang, Khun Yuam, Mae La Noi, Mae Sariang, Sob Muei, Pai and Pang Ma Pha.

The fascination of this land lies mainly on the purity of its nature, with its verdant forests and to wering mountains that always seen to fortify and protect its intrinsic culture from the rest of the country. This had capacitated the native people of Mae Hong Son to preserve their real and distinctive identity in terms of arts, culture and way of life. Hence tourists are allured to come and visit Mae Hong Son all the time.

Tourists often enjoy their visit to Thailand so much that they coming back for more. For those who want new ways to enjoy their holiday and for adventurous first-times, cycling tours are an attractive option. Off the beaten tourist track there is the opportunity to see the old Thailand that sometimes travelers forget is there. During riding cyclist can capture its sights, sounds, smells, and tastes with a chance to experience rural life, culture, beautiful nature and charming countryside. But cycling also offers unrivalled freedom of movement. They are mobile enough to cover a lot of ground and cyclists can stop whenever it suits your fancy; to chat with local people, succumb to the allurement of fruit stall, or simply to admire a view.