The Pang Soong Lodge
(our operational base)

Pang Soong Lodge is an Outdoor Education & Research Centre located in pristine high altitude (1,000 metre above sea level) some 45 kilometres (1 hour) by road from Chiang Mai City, northern Thailand.

Straddling the banks of the Mae Lai stream, just below the crest of the mountain range that separates the Chiang Mai and Lampang valleys, and on the outskirts of Ban Mae Lai, a ‘Khun Muang’ village, the Lodge is at the trail head of the ‘Pang Soong Nature Trails’, which are a part of a unique private sector / community based ecotourism development project.

The lodge provides accommodation, meals and logistical support for Track of the Tiger T.R.D.’s programmes designed for the following markets:

• Ecotourism – Interpretive nature trails and jungle treks.
• Educational programmes – A range of outdoor education programmes for the international school, university, and youth group markets.
• Corporate team building and Retreats – Jungle survival, river tracing, ropes course, fixed challenge and expedition style programmes with time set aside for the client’s own workshops, discussions in a relaxed, private, outdoor setting.
• Adventure Racing – The nature trails lend themselves to the growing sport of adventure racing, where small and larger groups compete against each other across challenge courses, set (in this case) in a jungle environment, where the obstacles to be navigated include, waterfalls, rope bridges, difficult terrain and more.
• Research – Academics and scientists, both individuals and groups, use the lodge and its resources (research lab, access to local ‘forest skilled’ labour volunteers and visiting schools, protected and well managed community forest) to support environmental and socio-economic research.
• Volunteering – Volunteers working on programmes for the VWB Initiative are based at Pang Song Lodge under a ‘subsidised accommodation and meal package’.