Here's where the real part of the trip started!! We had 2nts staying in hilltribe villages...the first day we walked for about 4.5 hours through the hills...was really hard in the heat, and very slippery..I managed it though!! We saw loads of waterfalls where we could swim (did end up slipping on a rock in one though and thought i was gonna carry on with the current...luckily i'm still here to tell the tale!!). We stayed in two different villages sleeping in bamboo huts, which was good fun, apart from the squat toilet and big bowl of water and a saucepan for our shower! on one of the days we visited a local school and then one evening all the local children from the village came and sang for us..it was really good...it was then our turn and we had to sing for them...don't think they were too impressed!!! Although they did enjoy the Hokey Cokey! On our final day of the trek we went elephant riding which i really enjoyed and then went bamboo rafting which was so much fun..a few of the rafts were having races and water fights..so was soaked by the end of it, but it was nice to cool down!