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Jungle trekking and visiting hilltribe villages of Northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai province.
Skimmed the surface of jungle survival on this 10k trek with Bamboo Tours. Make a bamboo selfie stick? No prob. Forage for crunchy cicadas? All over it. Cool down in a sandy bottom waterfall? Race you there.  Our guide and founder of Bamboo Tours, Kwan, is a true Tarzan of the jungle and professional at keeping his guests in one piece.
Best tip of the day was finding citronella plants and rubbing it all over to ward off the jungle mozzies. We dug up bamboo shoots, used banana leafs as sweat rags and watched in anticipation as Boy cut down a banana tree for us so we could have banana flower for lunch. I always assumed to get bananas someone had to climb the tree, but no, they just cut that sh*t down.
The treks give travelers a rare opportunity to visit hill tribe villages and sleep there on overnight trips. We stopped for lunch in a Lisu village and had a feast of healthy and definitely “in season” food cooked on an open fire.  Eating meat is not common for hill tribes because animals are seen as spiritual beings they worship. So many great uses of bamboo in SE Asia but a new one for me was the eggs cooked bamboo.

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