Chiang Mai Adventure Day

A tale of two adventures.  While CJ is off enjoying the Flight of the Gibbon™ up in the mountains, Carol's adventure, the Thai Two-Step, has her stuck in the room all day. By the time CJ returns at 4:30, she's still too weak to go to the pool.

The van climb to our destination ends with over 120 serpentine curves up the mountain. No one said anything about motion sickness medication.  Somehow CJ survives.

This operation has the longest zip line run in Asia at 800 meters or a half mile. It also has the superman run where you zip line hooked by your back and fly like superman and instead of landing on a platform, land in a net like Ranger training. For your continued enjoyment, there's the Indiana Jones bridge! All in all 18 zip lines, 3 sky bridges, and 2 Abseils (repelling).

CJ's group consists of a family of four from San Francisco, a couple from Perth, and a woman from Seattle.

Look ma, no hands

Shortly after crossing the first sky bridge, there is a small gibbon population consisting of both white and black gibbons.

Sky bridges are not a preferred path

White gibbon center of picture

White gibbon comes to feed

The 800 meter run comes directly after the gibbon encounter. This is a screaming fast run; so fast that for CJ's size a second brake is added to keep from killing the guide on the catching end.

 

CJ began crossing the Indiana Jones sky bridge and the poor woman in the middle started bouncing up and down violently. He had to stop and let her get off the bridge.

 

A bit more challenging than it looks; Don't look down



At this point some of the zip lines cross over and under one another. We keep seeing the next group zooming by on the 800 meter run. Note the legs of someone zooming past at the top of the picture while the boy in blue is in CJ's group.

 

 

Next we come across Superman!

Heading belly down and head first into the net

First of two repelling stations

Following our "flight", a Thai lunch was served accompanied by this Thai musical group.

 



There were 21 hairpin turns to the start of the zip lines; 40 returning for lunch, another 12 each way to the waterfall and the 140 on the return down the mountain. Thai food must really agree with CJ if he didn't lose the groceries during these runs up and down the mountain.

 

Carol musters enough energy to make it through happy hour and a light dinner at the hotel.