{"id":427,"date":"2010-10-12T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T02:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2013-10-17T02:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:49:32","slug":"october-12-2010-chiang-mai-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"October 12, 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our day has been fantastic – rock climbing, rapelling, and caving with Chiang Mai Rock Climbing Adventures<\/a>. We are spending the night with a family in the mountain village of Mae Kompong.<\/p>\n

I had no idea what to expect when I signed up for rock climbing, but it was really fun. It is so incredibly hot and humid; I don’t think I’ve ever sweat so much in my life. Our guides outfitted us with our climbing gear and we drove about 45 minutes out of the city to\u00a0Crazy Horse, an area of limestone cliffs and caves. We were the only beginner climbers in our group and had both instructors to ourselves\u00a0– the others were from Austria and had their own gear. They probably have mountains in their backyard. We started with a trek straight\u00a0up the mountain and I thought my legs were on fire. I didn’t make it very far up the first two routes but my husband flew up to the top like a monkey. We then rappelled down 55 meters (about 180 feet) into a large cave chamber inside the mountain and hiked out. We tried two more climbing routes\u00a0after lunch and I was able to make it to the top of the last one! Our guides, Taw and Phi,\u00a0were extremely friendly and I felt safe the entire time.<\/p>\n

After a full day of climbing, we were\u00a0driven to Mae Kompong, a\u00a0mountain village about 20 minutes from Crazy Horse. We stayed with a\u00a0woman, her son and his wife, and their 8 year old daughter. After sweating so much while rock climbing, I\u00a0was really looking\u00a0forward to a hot shower. I had to pour hot water into one\u00a0bucket, rain water into another, and mix them together before I poured it over my head! I didn’t care – it was awesome. The houses were very open – no\u00a0glass in the windows,\u00a0only shutters and the walls didn’t\u00a0meet the ceiling. You could hear\u00a0the\u00a0neighbors talking and people walking on the road.\u00a0I took a walk in the village before dinner.\u00a0People were out visiting with neighbors, children were playing, and a\u00a0gorgeous waterfall flowed\u00a0down the mountain and through the town.\u00a0After a fantastic dinner, I helped with the dishes using no hot water, only cold water from a spigot outside the house. I had a Thai massage after dinner – it was a fantastic combination of a yoga session, chiropractic treatment, and traditional massage.<\/p>\n

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Rock Climbing at Crazy Horse<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"View

View from the top<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Rappelling

Rappelling 180 feet into cave<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Traditional

Traditional Thai home in Mae Kompong<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Living

Living room of Thai home<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Kitchen

Kitchen of Thai home<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Mud

Mud slide blocking the road in Mae Kompong<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Mae

Mae Kompong<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our day has been fantastic – rock climbing, rapelling, and caving with Chiang Mai Rock Climbing Adventures. We are spending the night with a family in the mountain village of Mae Kompong. I had no idea what to expect when I signed up for rock climbing, but it was really fun. It is so incredibly … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}