A belated posting on the flickr site and gallery of the shots from Bangkok Patana’s Northern Thailand residential.

The Bangkok Patana teaching staff led by Lucy Livingstone conducted a great residential program which we provided the logisitics and all activities for

Operating under our Wild Planet name we are based in the Mae Teng valley for this program and raft the Mae Teng River.

This river is great providing fun grade three rafting with the reassurance of bank side access for the whole section. Also the Meng Ngat resevoir and surrounging valleys provide a great biking, paddling and trekking location.

The normal Wild Planet crew ran the program in conjunction with our long time partners in the North, Alex and Lynne Brodard

This is one of our orginal locations and programs first run in 98’ but is still one of our favourites.

Water levels were great, weather was great and as you can see from the pictures a great time was had by students and staff alike.

Mention to be made of Danny our trip photographer and his great shots.

 

Robin

 

Wang bon resevoir in addtion to be a great training site is also the exit from the Than Rattana Waterfall decent.

The exit of the waterfall into the lake can be seen left of centre, the route descends down the valley that can be seen on the right.

The entire route is around 1.5 km and can be accessed from inside the National Park just off the crossing road.

The route has 4 abseils, the highest being in the region of 50m+

The whole canyon can be seen on google earth at a relatively good resolution. As a side project we will be adding some tagged images of the region to the newly enhanced google earth images of the area.

 

We recently paddled across and surveyed the route from the bottom up to the foot of the main abseil checking for egress routes and doing our normal survey stuff for students groups.

 

We will be returning with Ben the ropes guru in a couple of weeks to access anchor placement and SOP for the entire decent.

 

Images to follow then :)