3 Day / 2 Night Lisu Lodge Soft Adventure (Code LSSA3D)
Soft Adventure – Lisu Lodge & Khum Lanna

Day 01 LISU LODGE (L, D)

Arrive at Lisu Lodge. A traditional welcome drink will be served prior to the briefing and orientation when you will choose your afternoon activity.

Enjoy a tasty Thai lunch.

In the afternoon, we provide you with a choice of one-hour activities:
    › Guided biking tour around the Lisu Lodge area
     › Steam bath
     › Massage
     › Ox-cart ride through farmlands and orchards to the Thai village of Baan Pang Mai Daeng - about an hour ending up back at Lisu Lodge

Notes:
- A second additional 1-hour activity can be booked at a nominal charge.
    › Guided biking tour around the Lisu Lodge area: 200 THB.
     › Steam bath: 200 THB.
     › Massage: 350 THB.
     › Ox-cart ride through farmlands and orchards to the Thai village of Baan Pang Mai Daeng - about an hour ending up back at Lisu Lodge: 350 THB.
- Freestyle biking (not guided, but with a Road Book of recommended itineraries) is considered as a free activity.

Guided by a Lisu villager, walk from Ton Lung temple to visit the herbal garden. Then continue through the village with a stop for a cup of tea at the village shaman’s house. Chat with the Lisu shaman and learn about his life, beliefs, curing rites and Lisu traditions.

Visit the cultural center and ‘museum’ created by the villagers. Inside you will find a collection of typical household items and tools from the Lisu as well as well as the Akha mountain peoples.

Time at leisure until Thai dinner with a traditional Lisu dance show.

Overnight at Lisu Lodge.

Day 02 LISU LODGE – KHUM LANNA (B, L, D)

Breakfast at the Lodge.

Start your adventure with an easy 13 kms (about 8 miles) of cycling to the rafting point.

Then enjoy 45 minutes of rafting on an inflatable raft downriver to a traditional Thai country village, followed by a short transfer to the Elephant Camp for a scenic picnic lunch.

Enjoy an hour of elephant riding through the beautiful mountainous jungle down to the river.

Then transfer to Khum Lanna.

Upon arrival, enjoy a refreshing herbal tea or fruit juice welcome drink from the bountiful gardens of Khum Lanna. Check-in to your room.

Briefing and orientation for you to select your activity for the following morning.

16h30: Thai cooking introduction; get a free Khum Lanna recipe book and start your first lesson to prepare authentic tasting Thai food (4 dishes). All major ingredients in Thai cooking are introduced along with the concept of balancing the 5-flavor groups.

Time at leisure until dinner.

Enjoy the Thai dinner that you have prepared in the afternoon.

Overnight at Khm Lanna.

Day 03 Khum Lanna (B, L)

05h30: Coffee/tea will be brought to your room for your wake-up call before the sunrise biking along the rural country road via San Kwang village to Phrao to visit an early morning local market where local coffee is available. With the help of your guide you may buy local cookies and flower garlands for the temple offering on the way back.

Then walk to visit the farmer’s rice and traditional tools shop, chat with the owner, and learn more about the rice legends and differences & properties of the varieties of rice. Your local escort will translate. Bike back to Khum Lanna with a stop to visit Wat Pa Gee. Pay respect to the Buddha image under the sacred tree.

Continue biking to Khum Lanna along the local canal with a stop to see the rice fields and get more information about the rice-growing process and the place of rice in Thai life.

Refreshment or shower before breakfast served at 09h00.

10h00: Enjoy preparation for Lanna country-style BBQ lunch with a garden tour around the compound; collect different seasonal herbs, vegetables, and fruits for cooking. Learn how to ride a water buffalo and then do the actual riding.

11h00: Take your second Thai cooking class during which you will learn to prepare and cook your selections from the garden or local market. Share an informal Lanna country-style BBQ lunch that you have prepared with your host.

Enjoy a Thai Lunch at Khum Lanna.

In the afternoon, we provide you with a choice of one-hour activities:
     › Guided biking tour around Khum Lanna
     › Fruit (or vegetable) carving
     › Artificial flower and carved candle making
     › Local style personal herbal steam bath
     › Hot-pressed herbal massage (consisting of 8 kinds of herbs: ginger, zingiber, lemongrass, plantain, tamarind leaves, soap pod, camphor and Aom Kiew)

Notes:
- A second additional 1-hour activity can be booked at a nominal charge.
     › Guided biking tour around Khum Lanna: 200 THB.
     › Fruit (or vegetable) carving: 300 THB.
     › Artificial flower and carved candle making: 300 THB.
     › Local style personal herbal steam bath: 200 THB.
     › Hot-pressed herbal massage (consisting of 8 kinds of herbs: ginger, zingiber, lemongrass, plantain, tamarind leaves, soap pod, camphor and Aom Kiew): 400 THB.
- Freestyle biking (not guided, but with a Road Book of recommended itineraries) is considered as a free activity.

16h00: End of the Experience.

Daily departures!

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Tour Code: LSSA3D