Bamboo rafting on the Mae Wong River and more...

Having found a great guide in Moh, I wasn't going to let him get away, so I asked him where we could go on my last day in Chiang Mai. We ended up going bamboo rafting down the Mae Wong, which was very peaceful and quite lovely. As you can see from the pics.





We ended up in another hilltribe village, where the Lisu people lived. as you can see, they're known for their colourful clothes.


After that, he took me to the Botanical Gardens, where there were hundreds of orchids. They had a technique of growing them which involved suspending them so that their roots hung free in the air. They were watered and fertilized from above, which apparently eliminated the need for burying their roots in the soil.

From there, we went to "Tiger Kingdom" which boasted the opportunity to get up close and personal with tigers. You got to choose between baby tigers, medium sized tigers and big tigers. I chose to put my money on the babies, partly because I figured it would be safer, but mostly because they're just so darned cute...



Later on, I got together with a woman I met in the B&B, Ginny. She's travelling for three months through southeast Asia, gathering information for a book she's writing for women who want to travel solo. We went and saw more incredible flowers, and then spent the evening together, found a great hole-in-the-wall restaurant, where we didn't really know what we were ordering, but enjoyed it nonetheless.