Hill tribes and jungle curry

Away from the hustle and bustle of Chiang Mai, which is a kind of mini-Bangkok tourist trap (you want tuk tuk ride?), I've spent the last 3 days on trekking through jungle to hill tribe villages, eating jungle curry, sitting on the neck of an elephant and rafting downstream in both dinghies and bamboo rafts!

It was a great mini-adventure trip, and good to get out of the city and exercise those limbs, which had spent too long on the southern Thai beaches. Mind you sleeping on the floor in wooden thatched huts in the jungle villages was an experience in itself.....think I need another Thai massage!