Chiang Dao Caves & Jungle Kayak: Northern Thai Adventure

Embark on a thrilling Chiang Dao jungle tour where you’ll go kayaking through undisturbed wilderness, explore the majestic Chiang Dao Cave, and indulge in scenic drives. Book now!

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Chiang Mai Mountain Biking & Kayaks - At Base Camp, we start with a safety briefing, confirm kayak choices, fit life jackets, and prepare for an exciting day ahead.
  • Chiang Dao Cave - Cave Exploration:
    Guided Walk: Take a 1-hour guided tour through the cave.
    Marvel at Caverns: Explore vast rooms and admire the intricate ceiling formations….
What's Included
  • Certified First Aid and CPR instructors
  • Be the captain of your own boat
  • Head lamps and local Cave Guide
  • 10-minute Cave to River shuttle by Van or Truck
  • Water for hydration packs and bottled water
  • Vegetarian and Vegan lunch options at Cave side Restaurant
  • Google Earth Orientation and Kayak Briefing at Pro-shop
  • Support Truck with secure…
What's Not Included
  • Insurance/Riverfees : 150 baht, please provide your passport details at check-in.
  • Pro-Shop: Find sunscreen, repellent, water shoes and other outdoor gear available for purchase.
Additional Information

Explore Chiang Dao Caves & Kayak Through Northern Thai Jungle
Join us for the most popular adventure in Chiang Mai! Begin by exploring the intricate Chiang Dao Cave system led by a knowledgeable local guide. Spend an hour in the side arms with expansive caverns, then enter the main well-lit chambers adorned with Buddhist figures and relics honoring the…

Location
Chiang Mai Mountain Biking & Kayaks
92/ 1-2 Sridonchai Road
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Janice_h
Sep 23, 2024
CHALLENGING BUT FUN - This tour was fabulous because of our wonderful guides and driver. Jane and A took two old ladies “under their wings”, and made sure our trip was fun and safe. It was a lot of work for them. We are so grateful for our safe trip on the roads with our driver!
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Laura
Sep 13, 2024
Would defiantly recommend if either casual caving, or kayaking is your jam. - Ended up being the only one on the tour that day, but still had a great time. Both guides were very accomodating and made sure everything was safe. The Chiang Mai cave was a big highlight for me personally, and would have been worth the trip alone. The recent floods have made the river quite precarious. I was lucky to still be able to kayak down a calmer strip of the river, but the water was still quite fast. I have kayaked before, but not an expert by any means - and found it all easily manageable. Thankyou!
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Sneha_y
Aug 27, 2024
Excellent time good pad thai - Amazing adventure at the cave. Kayaking ended up in a different place because of the rains but it was fun too almost 2 hours of kayaking a d good guide
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Kimberly_b
Aug 15, 2024
Great tour and guide! - It was great and our guide was awesome! We saw a lot and learned even more! It was a great experience overall!
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Andrea_s
Jul 20, 2024
Kingfishers and cave spiders! - The caving was wild. Was more intense than we expected but so so cool. Get ready for giant cave spiders. And we saw some really beautiful wild life on the kayak tour. So many birds and amazing flowers.
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248gaynorc
Jun 25, 2024
Highlight - This is probably going to stand out as a highlight of my trip although I’m still in Thailand! Our guide was so knowledgeable and throughout the whole experience which begins with the cave (which is also a temple so ladies bring something suitable to wear, I didn’t but they give you something to cover up with thankfully) he pointed out different creatures living in the cave and all about the rock formations and the history, the fish there. Really really good! Lunch. Kayaking next which you get a really good tutorial in before you go sailing off and I’d never kayaked before and I managed it no problem so you’re definitely in good hands. 100% recommend this!
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Laura_h
Jun 17, 2024
Highly recommend - Loved this day trip. The cave was great to walk through and I really enjoyed the kayaking down the river, it was so peaceful.
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Carolyn
May 7, 2024
Exercise with a difference 🤗🕷️🦇🦬 - A wonderful day , firstly exploring the caves, our guide was friendly and informative, looking after our needs, the local lunch of Pad Thai delicious, followed up with the two hour kayak through the Ping River. We would highly recommend .
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Bandoeagle
Apr 18, 2024
Recommended Operator and Tour - I highly rate this adventure tour operator and this tour. Starting with a well prepared orientation for the day at their office we had a 90 minute drive north. As we are older participants they were attentive to our needs and let us ride in the pickup truck cab. The cave visit was memorable. Cave ecology and the caves history as a Burmese monastery were explained. bats, snakes and spiders pointed out (no danger to us). It is a long walk with some narrow or low or slippery passages. Lunch was very plain. I wish we had been told there is a selection at the restaurant besides Pad Thai. The kayaking portion was also memorable. Good orientation. River never too swift but we still managed to capsize once. Khun Jojo was right there to help, but still I got my phone wet (you are warned). On the way back Khun Jojo kindly took us to a phone repair shop where the phone surgeon declared my phone DOA.
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X9746ajtimh
Apr 3, 2024
Great fun for all the family - This was our second guided tour during our time in Chiang Mai and another cracker. We were collected by Jen (our very friendly guide) from our hotel in the Old Town and after a good briefing of how to control a single person kayak plus being fitted for our buoyancy jackets we were on our way. The minivan was comfortable with air conditioning and our first stop was the caving at Chiang Dao. We saw loads of bats inside the caves, huntsman spiders and crickets together with some spectacular stalagmites and stalactites. There were some narrow passages to fit through (nothing too claustrophobic) which was part of the fun and Jen provided us with some historical facts on our way. After the caving we were treated to a nice Pad Thai lunch then on to kayaking. This was great fun and well supervised. It was very much at an easy pace and no sign of white water which made the whole experience very relaxed. We kayaked through some beautiful areas, stopped halfway on a sandbank for a cooling swim and break and completed the river section in just over 2 hours. Overall a great tour - big thanks to Jen and his fellow guide for a fun and friendly time 🙏
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From $73
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).