Chiang Mai - Flight of the Gibbons

Emily and I decided to go to Chiang Mai for the weekend.  It is 700km or 1hour flight north from Bangkok.  We searched the web for cool things to do and reasonably priced places to stay.  We found the Rainforest Boutique Hotel:

Very pretty.  Very popular. Very good food at the Restaurant and excellent breakfast buffet (included in price). Nice amenities and close to the old city.  Beds were not much better than blanket-covered-planks and I really hurt my leg getting in to the pool because the pool steps were so incredibly high (or low depending which way you are standing).  I would give it a 3/5.  Probably wouldn't go again but would recommend it to budget minded travellers who like a firm mattress.

Saturday we joined the 'Flight of the Gibbon' tour group and flew through the trees.  Zip-line baby, that's what I'm talking about.  With a couple of abseils thrown in!

First zip was 300m...really cool.  Longest zip was 800m...that's almost a Kilometer people!  That was amazing and so fast. 

There were a few 'honeymoon' zips where you got to go with your partner (each person on their own line) and a few zips where Emily had to double up with another teenager because they are both so slight;  they would have gotten stuck in the middle of the line if they had gone solo! 











We traversed through the jungle on plank bridges high up in the trees. 

The first abseil was 15m down and the second was 45m down the trunk of an old Banyan tree. 
















Absolutely marvellous!  I rented a GOPro digital camera and have really fantastic HD videos of our zips.