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We had a fantastic experience this evening with Linh, who was a wonderful guide, extremely sweet, and took us to eat the best food of our lives. Thank you so much to her! The tour was good value, however, I would not book through South East Asia Backpackers again. I recommend you get in touch with Friends Travel Hanoi directly instead. Having completed the online booked and paid a deposit through SE Asia Backpacker, I was not given any information about the tour (e.g. when or where it would start!), just the contact details for Friends Travel so I could reach out to them and book it myself. It turned out that there wasn’t even a tour running at the time I thought I had booked, and they knew nothing about the deposit that I had paid! By booking through this site you’re basically paying for a WhatsApp number for you to arrange your own tour 😭 Better just to contact the tour operator directly. But I recommend you do, as the tour itself was fantastic ☺️
Very qualitative ! The food is amazing good, the coaches and the coaching are qualified, qualitative, friendly, harmful, funny and traditional. The room at the resort is very great and near to the camp. The place is really beautiful and calm. I recommend 100 %. Thanks for taking care of me. Chock Dee Krap 🙏🏽
I had an amazing time on this trip driving (self-Ride) through the rural areas around da Nang and hue. Saw a lot of amazing Landscapes and gained a lot of impressions.
Sitjemam has set me up on a lifelong fitness journey. The people I met there were wonderful humans, kind, patient, enthusiastic, bursting with character. Humans from all over the world and the wonderful Thai and International trainers.
The gym is set in a beautiful location, just beneath the Himalayan foothills, its wonderfully green, birds sing, dogs chase you playfully and sometimes scarily lol (as they do locals), but the village of Na Chalon is quaint and peaceful. I would walk to the gym everyday at 8 and begin my warm up, sometimes the mist hung around from the rapid sunrise, it would chill the air and give you the extra umph for a hard train.
Around 11 after training the sun is shining and you take some rest and brunch, maybe chicken from the catfish grill lady on the Pai town outskirts. It was class
Evening training would be sweat filled and the heat rise up in all the fighters, creating a group sense of competitiveness and desire to push each other.
I felt very emotional leaving, I found something deep that was unlocked in my own sense of travel and my own confidence. I am sure I’m a better human for coming here, I can’t wait to come back in December.
some photos of my trainers at Pat Fight Night
Excellent and informative, we saw the dolphins and loved watching them feed. A very ethical trip no chasing the dolphins. We also visited the fish carving place. We 100% recommend this trip. Mr Dahn was really good with children too