Northern Thai Tuk Tuk Trails

Duration: 1 day

Highlights: CHIANG MAI
• Drive your own tuk tuk in the countryside
• Lunch at a sustainable elephant home
• Float down the river on a bamboo raft

This tour is a recommended sample itinerary that can be fully customized to your preferred dates, time frame, hotels and interests. Contact your preferred travel agent for more information.

Itinerary

Get ready for an exciting chauffeur-driven/self-drive tuk tuk adventure in the remote hills of northern Thailand, exploring rural life, remote temples and an elephant home. The tuk tuks are classic-design, custom-built vehicles with added legroom and headroom for a more comfortable ride. A rollback roof allows you to feel the wind in your hair and Bluetooth speakers mean you can groove to your own tunes on the way! After a 45-minute transfer to Mae Wang district, set off on your private tuk tuk journey through scenic mountain trails, farming villages, fields and rice terraces.

In the early afternoon, you arrive at a small, ethical elephant home. Learn about the relationship between elephants and the local community, the history of the home and their vision for creating a sustainable future for the elephants and their mahouts. Your visit here today helps continue the important work of this small-scale, ethical enterprise. Have lunch while watching the elephants roam and play in the fields and forests, then walk through the countryside to watch them bathe in the river. Later, experience a different mode of travel and float down the local river on a traditional bamboo raft. This gentle and relaxing raft journey is a great way to experience local life from a different angle while your expert rafter negotiates the twists and turns of the river. Back on dry land, take your tuk tuk back to the tuk tuk base and transfer back to your hotel.