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Best Trekking In Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia usually in top of wonderful treks, allowing you to spend days traveling through dense rain forests, spotting amazing wildlife, discovering the cultures of the many different tribes who live in the remote areas, and regularly staying with them in their houses and sharing the meals with their meals. The following ten treks are greatly recommended, and also ensure that any areas visited benefit from your presence.
TAMAN NEGARA, MALAYSIA
There are six landscapes hides in Taman Negara – one of the oldest rainforests on earth and in pictured above – there are place where you can stay the night and experience the forest in all its noisy nocturnal glory. Within the day, you can cruise on river, explore limestone caves with ancient relic – wall-drawings or climb up to the canopy trail for a nearly look at the wildlife.
CHARITY CHALLENGE, VIETNAM
This challenging walk through the hills of northern Vietnam bring you to the villages of Black H’mong, Red Dao and Tay minorities, with some nights living in the homes of tribes and others camping. You have to raise a minimum sponsorship before you go, but because everybody is doing it for the charity of their passion, it creates a real bond among the group, with everyone supporting each other to achieve their aims.
INTREPID TRAVEL, THAILAND
This three-day trek, visiting the hospitable Karen people, living in the hills around Chiang Mai, forms the middle part of a week-long trip starting and ending with visits to some of the attractions of Bangkok, making it ideal for those on limited time. The walking is only three or so hours each day through huge forest, which leaves you plenty of time to explore the villages where you’ll stop off for the night. .
KHAMMOUANE ECOGUIDES, LAOS
Leaded by a guide from the local community, this two-day journey in Phou Hin Poun explores some of the caves and churning rapids for which this area of forested limestone hills is famous. Bring your torch, as the largest cave – the stalactite-filled Kong Lor – is 7km long.
POOH ECO TREKS, THAILAND
Setting off from Chiang Mai, your local guides Mr Pooh and his Karen partner Mr Tee will lead you with flaming torches deep into bat-filled caves and help you have the most of a stay with Karen villagers whom they have known for twenty years. By the end of your journey, they will also have train you how to forage for food in the jungle.
HILL TRIBE TOURS, THAILAND
Run by an NGO based in Chiang Rai, these trips focus more on cultural exchange than physical endurance. As you walk only a couple of hours a day, You will spend most of your time experiencing the rhythms of daily life with members of the Lahu, Akha and Karen tribes – perhaps serveing meals on the bamboo floor of your host’s home, helping in the fields or volunteering in the local school.
YEAK LAOM, CAMBODIA
The dense forests covering the Ratanakiri district in northeast Cambodia are little bit hard to negotiate alone, so you’ll be glad to have a knowledgeable guide who can lead you to the most remote areas. One of these is the gorgeous Yeak Laom Lake – which fills a disused volcanic crater – and its surrounding five Tampuen villages, where you’ll know more about traditional handicrafts, customs and beliefs.
GREEN DISCOVERIES, LAOS
Tramping through the forests around Luang Namtha in northern Laos, gathering forest vegetables to have dinner, you’ll come to meet the Akha people. You’ll sleep in the villagers’ houses, in here you can watch or join in with their lively songs and dances, and have a go on some of the instruments they use.
MOUNT KINABULU, SABAH, MALAYSIAN BORNEO
It is just one day, uphill trek and a pre-dawn climb up a rocky ascent to see the sun rise at the summit of Mount Kinabalu, the tallest mountain in Southeast Asia. To tackle it you must buy a permit for at Kinabalu Park’s headquarters. After the trekking, soothe your muscles in the geothermally heated Poring Hot Springs.
