Pick up at your hotel in Chiang Mai and transfer to Pai. Check in at your resort. Rest of day at leisure. Optional tours can be arranged upon request at surcharge, please ask for our Pai excursion price list. Overnight at Pai Hotspring Spa Resort.

Breakfast at the resort.

08:45hrs pick up from your hotel in Pai and meet with other participants at the rafting base. While socializing around a cup of coffee, select your rafting equipment (helmet and life jacket) according to your size and weight.  After a safety briefing, we will drive 40 km by pick up truck to reach the put in point. Around 11 am you will meet your captains and receive the last paddling instructions, ready for boarding. The first strokes will take you straight into the lush of the jungle; after few kilometers of gentle warm up and bouncing down the first rapids, you will stop for a basket lunch by the shade of a huge wild mango tree; Then you will experience the thrill of the class 4 “Fragrance rapid”; rowing and jumping, you will reach the first hot springs and fluoride mine area of geological interest. Few kilometers later, we will stop at a small waterfall a good occasion to explore and play water games. Then, following the meanders of the river through the deep jungle, we will arrive at our camp (5 pm); you will settle in your huts or tents, take a shower, relax or explore the area before we serve our chilled welcome drink “Pai River punch” and northern Thai snacks. A delicious Thai diner cooked by the guides on the wood fire will follow (vegetarian on request); then fruits, coffee, tea, will complete the menu while guides will show you some tricks of their own. Spend the night in harmony with nature, in a bamboo hut fully furnished with sleeping bags, pillows and mosquito nets. Shower & toilets are simple but clean facilities made of bamboo walls.

To fill-up with energy, a filling breakfast with homemade bread, eggs and fresh coffee plus a Thai rice soup will be served from 7 am. Departing from the camp at 9 am, we will enjoy more than 15 rapids among which is the class 3 “Red cliff”. Further down, we will reach the Khong River junction, an important tributary of the Pai river. As a result, the riverbed gets broader, the landscapes more open; few minutes later, the expedition will take a break at the main hot springs area and will get ready for more fun through the set of the “Rising stone” rapids (about 5 rapids from 100 to 400 meters long,  grade 2-3 ); after such emotions, lunch will be served on the bank of a clear stream; then, you will pick up your paddles again to row through the Pai Gorges scattered with few more tricky rapids. Coming to the end, we will come out into the Mae Hong Sorn Valley and the first farming areas.  We will disembark at Mae Surin waterfall National park Headquarter around 3 pm; there you will redeem your main luggage and take a shower before a short transfer to Mae Hong Son hotel or airport (accommodation in Mae Hong Son or air-ticket are not included in package price).

Alternatively, we can transfer you back to Pai (110 km about 2 hrs drive - accommodation in Pai not included in package price).