Chiang Mai Part 5: ATV Rides
One of the many things you can do in Chiang Mai is to go for an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) rides. Thats exactly what we did on the 2nd day. Usually its supposed to be a 4 hours ride but mine turned out to be around 6 hours. Thank goodness I had a heavy breakfast else we would had to eat raw cabbage.
Briefing before we set off
A trial run thru the demo course
On the road to the mountain
On the way, as we approached our first natural terrain, one of my colleagues drove the ATV down a slope. Luckily they managed to grab hold of the nearby trees to avoid tumbling down the slope. The ATV got caught among the trees but we managed to salvage it. One of them had tiny splinters embedded into her palm and fingers. We can’t extract it out, so just have to let the body heal itself.
Move along, there is nothing to see as we gather around the accident site.
After that, everything more or less went quite well, except for the occassional ATV that got stuck in mud.
Mud bath
My ride
These two pics are of the area that we drove thru. They are planting cabbages on these hill side. The weather was fantastic, not too hot or too wet. Some of us got a bit tan though.
The cabbage truck
Children from the local school waving as us as drove thru the tiny village. I feel like I am in a National Geographic shoot.
White top
SO FUN!!!! I think Thailand is a very fun place to be at lor!
love the shot of the 2 kids.
That looks so fun. I wonder when can I try driving those.