Bamboo Rafting
Deep Jungle Trek

What’s unique about this trek?

Have you ever floated down a river on a raft you built with your own two hands? If the answer is yes, then you’re awesome. If the answer is no, then this is the trek for you, and soon you will be awesome. This trek is for the independent spirits that can’t sit idly by and watch someone else do all the work. If we’re going to build a raft in a single afternoon, then we’re going to need everyone’s help. Learn how to craft rope from bamboo, then use that rope to make a vessel. By the time you leave the jungle, you’ll be an honorary bamboo craftsperson.

And what better reward for our efforts than a tranquil float back down the river? Off our feet and without an engine, our presence in the forest will be forgotten, and it will be like we are not even there. Though not guaranteed, we’ve often come face-to-face with monkeys and other more skittish creatures you’d never have a chance to see so close any other way. Because we’re out on the water, they generally react with curiosity rather than fear.

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Itinerary for 3-Day Bamboo Rafting Deep Jungle Trek

Day 1/3

  • Start Time: 8:30AM
  • Head to the Minority market in Banlung to experience the local economy and stock up on supplies.
  • Head out from town, drive for an hour and a half.
  • Board the ferry to cross Se-San River.
  • Board motorbikes (as passengers) and drive for forty minutes.
  • Arrive in Kawet Village, a remote community of Animists.
  • Have lunch with the locals.
  • Begin trek, walk for three hours.
  • Arrive at Chai Janang Waterfall
  • Night routine

Day 2/3

  • Wake up: 6:30AM
  • Go through morning preparations, which includes boiling the day’s drinking water, preparing (and eating) breakfast, and double checking equipment.
  • Start time: 9AM
  • Begin trek, walk for three hours.
  • Arrive at day two campsite, where we will first have lunch.
  • Bellies full, we will spend the afternoon cutting bamboo, making rope, and building our rafts.
  • This should keep us busy until evening, night routine.

Day 3/3

  • Wake up: 6:30AM
  • Go through morning preparations, which includes boiling the day’s drinking water, preparing (and eating) breakfast, and double checking equipment.
  • Start time: 9AM
  • We board the rafts that we ourselves built the day before, floating down the river for the next three hours, enjoying the surroundings as the locals once did a thousand years ago.
  • Return to the shore for a riverside lunch.
  • Board motorbikes and drive for half an hour.
  • Arrive at the rice fields, where we will hunt for giant tarantula!
  • Once we’ve had our fill of arachnids, we will take the motorbikes back to the ferry.
  • Return home by tuktuk.
Itinerary for 4-Day Bamboo Rafting Deep Jungle Trek

Day 1/4

  • Start Time: 8:30AM
  • Head to the Minority market in Banlung to experience the local economy and stock up on supplies.
  • Head out from town, drive for an hour and a half.
  • Board the ferry to cross Se-San River.
  • Board motorbikes (as passengers) and drive for forty minutes.
  • Arrive in Kawet Village, a remote community of Animists.
  • Have lunch with the locals.
  • Begin trek, walk for three hours.
  • Arrive at Chai Janang Waterfall
  • Night routine

Day 2/4

  • Wake up: 6:30AM
  • Go through morning preparations, which includes boiling the day’s drinking water, preparing (and eating) breakfast, and double checking equipment.
  • Start time: 9AM
  • Begin trek, walk for three hours to Changorng River.
  • Have lunch at the riverside. Break for twenty minutes.
  • Continue walking for two hours, arriving at the campsite for night two, the Chhaykroh Waterfall.
  • Night routine

Day 3/4

  • Wake up: 6:30AM
  • Morning preparations.
  • Start time: 9AM
  • Begin trek, walk for three hours to Oh Lalai River, our third camping location.
  • Have lunch at the riverside, break for twenty minutes.
  • Bellies full, we will spend the afternoon cutting bamboo, making rope, and building our rafts.
  • This should keep us busy until evening, night routine.

Day 4/4

  • Wake up: 6:30AM
  • Morning preparations.
  • Start time: 9AM
  • We board the rafts that we ourselves built the day before, floating down the river for the next three hours, enjoying the surroundings as the locals once did a thousand years ago.
  • Return to the shore for a riverside lunch.
  • Board motorbikes and drive for half an hour.
  • Arrive at the rice fields, where we will hunt for giant tarantula!
  • Once we’ve had our fill of arachnids, we will take the motorbikes back to the ferry.
  • Return home by tuktuk.