Bamboo rafting chiang mai.
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Good morning ladies &gentleman. May I introduce myself ?
My name’s Weeraya. Please call me Mo.
I’ll be your tour guide for this place.
I’ll try my best to make your holiday as enjoyable as I can.
First of all, I’d like to welcome to Bamboom rafting, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Something we’ve wanted to do for a while now was to take a day trip and go bamboo rafting in Chiang Mai’s countryside. When a group of friends suggested that we join them for a lazy river trip through the jungle now that the hot season has rolled in, it sounded perfect.
The way we saw it, bamboo rafting was the Thai equivalent of river tubing, which happens to be a summer pastime of ours We’d round up a few people, grab a cooler of beer, and spend an afternoon floating down a slow moving river. So that’s what we ended up doing, only this time we did it Thai style.
One of the popular spots to go bamboo rafting in Chiang Mai is the Mae Wang (or Wang River, pronounced ‘wahng’), which is about an hour’s drive southeast away from the Old City toward Doi Inthanon. We made the ride in a songthaew and our driver dropped us off at the entrance of a place called Chai Lai Orchid that backs up to the Mae Wang. Just left of its entrance was a little no name shop where we paid and arranged for our bamboo rafting trip. From there we hopped into the back of a pickup truck and took a short ride to a big shack in the jungle that housed about a dozen bamboo rafts.
The bamboo rafts were HUGE and around 25 feet (7.5 meters) long. They were pretty basic and made of several thick bamboo stalks that were bound together with some rope and strips of rubber. We were handed two long skinny poles for each raft to propel ourselves down the river gondola style and then sent along our way.
The river was very shallow (only few inches deep in some places) but the water was refreshing and not too cold. The jungle’s trees and grasses came up to the waterline so we were in the cool shade for much of the trip.
As it turned ou a sharp bend and a huge rock to the right. It’s actually just before the first rope bridge that hangs over the river. We pushed our rafts onto the sandy bank on the left side and a few members of our group did some cannonballs into a deep spot in the river much to the amusement people passing by. If you follow us on Periscope you probably caught our live stream video of our bamboo rafting adventure.
Do you have any question? If not, thank you very much for listening and I hope you enjoy for activity of this place.