Doi Chiang Luang Dao

Wow what a sleep. I've barely been sleeping, whether it was pure exhaustion I'm not sure but I slept like a baby and woke up just in time for our 5:45am start. It was pretty cold outside, 9 degrees, which was truly refreshing. By the time we packed and drove up it was about 7:15am. For those that know Will I obviously don't need to explain, but the main reason for us leaving this early was because the checkpoint to enter the national park (you have to pay) is unmanned early in the morning. Also we were told by some that you must have a guide and by some that you don't. So we decided to get out early to bipass any locals. And we were indeed successful and actually saved a minimum of 1400 BHT. To put this into perspective, to have a full dinner it is 50 BHT, so that's 28 dinners! So although it's being a bit cheap it was actually a success.

So we pulled into the car park and was ready to start but hit a no entry sign. Obviously Will completely ignored it and marched on, saying he would claim to be Italian if anyone asked. And wow what a walk, although not the most difficult we've done, it was tough, steep, beautiful and a great day. We saw incredible bamboo trees, a buff striped keelback snake, black crested bulbul and... As I can't limit this walk to only 6 pictures I've done two footprints 😀Read more