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Guest Reviews: Northern Highlights
Title: Katie's Review of Northern Highlights Tour
Guest: Katie G, Feb 2011
Review: The Northern Highlights tour is a must for anyone wanting to really see Thailand. Having visited the country many times before I was astounded at how much I didn't know and how much I hadn't seen. The pace of a bicycle is certainly the best way to see, hear, smell and taste this wonderful country. Tom and Yai and exceptional guides with limitless local knowledge and stories. Yai is a passionate cook and her encouragement of us to taste everything we laid eyes on made me very glad we were cycling an average of 60km a day (check). The accommodation all along the route, which begins in Chiang Mai and ends up just by the border of Myanmar, is of an exceptionally high standard as is the support and care you receive in the sag waggon every step of the way.
Highlights: Cycling up to the Elephant camp, all the amazing food and places to stay. Checking out the markets and learning more about Thai culture. AND just cycling, cycling, cycling!
Ratings: Value
Guides
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Title: My first bike tour -- and a truly wonderful experience!
Guest: Mary B, Nov 2008
Review: What a great time I had on this tour -- it's one week I will always remember. We stayed in very nice hotels (swimming pools in all of them), ate wonderful meals, saw both the requisite Thai cultural sites and some off-the-beaten path things -- like a Buddha cave at a temple out in the middle of nowhere! Our guide, Yai, was just wonderful -- she provided lots of background on Thai culture. In fact, that may have been the best part of the tour, apart from the riding. I feel like I came back with a solid understanding of the country and its people, something I definitely would have missed if I hadn't had Yai as a guide. Would I take this tour again? In a heartbeat!
Highlights: the food, the guide, the elephant camp, the food, the national park with hot springs, the Buddha cave, the massages! the night market, the fresh fruit, the temples, the orchids everywhere, oh and did I mention the food?
Ratings: Value Guides
Hotels Route Food
Title: Katie's Review of Northern Highlights Tour
Guest: Katie G, Feb 2011
Review: The Northern Highlights tour is a must for anyone wanting to really see Thailand. Having visited the country many times before I was astounded at how much I didn't know and how much I hadn't seen. The pace of a bicycle is certainly the best way to see, hear, smell and taste this wonderful country. Tom and Yai and exceptional guides with limitless local knowledge and stories. Yai is a passionate cook and her encouragement of us to taste everything we laid eyes on made me very glad we were cycling an average of 60km a day (check). The accommodation all along the route, which begins in Chiang Mai and ends up just by the border of Myanmar, is of an exceptionally high standard as is the support and care you receive in the sag waggon every step of the way.
Highlights: Cycling up to the Elephant camp, all the amazing food and places to stay. Checking out the markets and learning more about Thai culture. AND just cycling, cycling, cycling!
Ratings: Value
Guides Hotels
Route Food
Title: My first bike tour -- and a truly wonderful experience!
Guest: Mary B, Nov 2008
Review: What a great time I had on this tour -- it's one week I will always remember. We stayed in very nice hotels (swimming pools in all of them), ate wonderful meals, saw both the requisite Thai cultural sites and some off-the-beaten path things -- like a Buddha cave at a temple out in the middle of nowhere! Our guide, Yai, was just wonderful -- she provided lots of background on Thai culture. In fact, that may have been the best part of the tour, apart from the riding. I feel like I came back with a solid understanding of the country and its people, something I definitely would have missed if I hadn't had Yai as a guide. Would I take this tour again? In a heartbeat!
Highlights: the food, the guide, the elephant camp, the food, the national park with hot springs, the Buddha cave, the massages! the night market, the fresh fruit, the temples, the orchids everywhere, oh and did I mention the food?
Ratings: Value
Guides Hotels
Route Food