1 Day Trekking Group Tour With Bamboo Cooking / Chiang Rai

This full-day trek covers 10-12 km of walking — roughly five hours on foot — through bamboo forest, farmland, rice fields and hill tribe villages around Chiang Rai. It starts near the Phra Soep Hot Spring trailhead and finishes back at the springs, so the day bookends itself: you leave the mineral water behind at the start and return to soak in it before the ride home.

Lunch is built into the walk rather than treated as a separate stop. Partway through the trek, the group pauses in the forest to cook using handmade bamboo utensils — it’s the lunch break, not a standalone cooking class, so plan the day around one continuous hike rather than two separate activities. The route also passes a waterfall, and between that and the hot spring at the end, swimwear and a towel are worth packing even though this is billed as a hiking day.

At $55.31 per person, the price covers private transportation both to the trailhead and back to your hotel, along with all park and entry fees — only bottled water is excluded, worth packing given five hours on foot in Chiang Rai’s heat. Groups are capped at nine, small enough to keep pace flexible on narrow forest paths without splitting into sub-groups, and the tour holds a 4.9 rating from 57 reviews.

Watch out: This is rated challenging, not easy, even though it’s also pitched as suitable for couples and families. Ten to twelve kilometres and five hours of walking is a genuine full day out — proper shoes matter more than the “family-friendly” framing suggests.