
Trekking with the hill tribes
22nd April 2010 This morning we’d arranged to go on a guided trek to a couple of hill tribe villages with the Israeli couple we’d met yesterday, who were also staying at our hotel. We had read good things about the trek which the hotel ran, so they had booked the trek for us. At 9am our guide Chi was there ready to take us out. Chi is from the Black H’mong tribe and lives in one of the local villages. She has been giving guided treks for the hotel for about five years and despite never having attended school had an excellent level of English. ...