This morning was an early start, we were picked up by songthaews and stopped off at a nearby market called Mai Malay where our porters stocked up on food supplies for our 3 day trip into the jungle. It was filled with fresh fish, fruit and meat, and there were people feeding elephants in a truck outside. In the songthaew with us was a piglet which we had bought as a group for one of the village families who are very poor. We named him the Notorious BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato)! We then stopped at Mork Fa waterfall, which was set in a national park high up in the moutains. We walked through the forest to the clearing, where the water fell from a great height causing beautiful rainbows to form at the bottom. We cooled off with a quick swim, absolute paradise. We then climbed to halfway up the waterfall to a bat cave, though weren't lucky enough to see any bats, just a brilliant view! After stopping at a roadside shack for a really tasty lunch cooked by our porter, we continued to the starting point of our trek. We then trekked for about 3 hours, carrying the day packs we'd brought and our bright orange life jackets for the rafting. It was exhausting, very steep hills and a baking sun, though the enormous trees gave us shade. The guide cut our way with a machetti and pointed out to us bees nests, animal traps, medicinal herbs, funnel spider webs and termite mounds. We stopped for an energy snack of banana wrapped in sweet sticky rice bound up in banana leaves. The scenery was incredible and from the top of the mountain we were above the clouds but downhill was very slippery and one girl nearly fell off the side! The village we stayed in that evening was just 42 people, and called Pong noi. It was part of the Karen tribe, and the houses were made of wooden planks and bamboo on huge stilts above the ground. They grew everything they needed, rice, ginger and vegetables, and chickens and pigs roamed freely around the place. We gave our pig to an old woman with one son called Poi. The porters cooked us a delicious green thai curry and fish soup, and we sat outside listening to our trekking guide tell us about his life in the hilltribles, until it became dark and a little cooler. We headed up to our beds which were blankets on a wooden floor, in a communal room, but it seemed very spacious with all our mosquito nets hanging from the roof.