Tourism Authority of Thailand
TAT License Number 23/0967

Adventure We DO!!!
We're enjoy silent, natural powered, human powered, created a wonderful adventure sport to be done in the nature, where the reward involves no audience and no prize other than hard-won grace. These entail risk, require soul and invite reflection. We will bring you closer to the nature and your limitation.

Mountain Design (Thailand) has been found since 2001 and is Thailand's first established fully adventure trips, adventure training course, guiding, sight-seeing and travel services in Chiang Mai and Northern of Thailand.

 We provides courses, tours and training in etcMountain biking, Rock climbing, Abseiling, Canoe&Kayaking, Hiking, Trekking, Mountain survival ang more adventure activities. As a qualified instructor and experinced staffs to provide of quality adventure instruction. We believe our high standards, excellent facilities and most of all our superior experiences are the best in line.

Mountain Designs(Thailand) running a quality private and custom trips for all adventure lover on requested.

*** We are currently running PRIVATE adventure trip, anyway we are keen to arrange joining trips through our connection for our guests as requested . 

Out programs are many difficulty and level also can be a good guideline for traveller to get some ideas what we offers, and you can contact us to designs your adventure holiday to suit to you time and abilities. Please contact us for more details.

Ekkaphan Hirancoop
Adventure manager

We also running our regular excursion and city tours in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and around Northern Thailand with our friendly services and reasonable price for our guests. Our sight-seeing trips are designs to visit the most famous places and interesting activities around Chiang-Mai and surrounding area, explore the Lanna Thai Traditional and unique cultures which suitable to all tourist. Out of the city enjoy the most beautiful nature and exciting with soft adventure activities which all can be apart of the Local life style, and more interesting trips for you to design your holiday to become the best holiday in your life.

To have as positive an impact as possible. With our ethics and environment we trained our guide and staffs and also to give our guests a better understanding of their impact on the areas they travel through. We also have a fund that we will use to contribute to important projects throughout the Northern Thailand. These projects will be updated as we continue to contribute time and money to worthwhile initiatives.

With the environmental concern, we are aiming to reduce our impacts as much as we possibly can. This will be partly achieved by taking steps on our tours to reduce unnecessary waste, limit plastic bag use, support local tourism as well as attempting to make our tour arrangement process to be the most environment friendly.

What kind of Mountain Biking trips in Chiang Mai? Who can join the trips?

The mountain biking in Chiang Mai are many difficulty biking trip you can select to suit to your fitness and biking abilities. We'd provied diffirent levels can be easy as biking in the village to see the cultures natures and local's life style, also can be more difficult as single trails trips, downhill or multi-day of mountain biking over the mountain. We offers only Private biking trips, so it means that everyon can enjoy the trip as your requested.

What king of bikes do you using in the trips?

We'r using the high quality of mountain bikes 24 gears, Giant, Mongoose, GT, and more famous mountain bike brand including helmet to our guests.

Children can join the tours?

Our private custom trip can be arrange to suit to your family and group, normally children under 13 not recommended to be in the tough level biking tours.

What is including in the mountain biking tours?

Nomally the tours wil including mountain bike, helmet, drinking water, lunch (Boxes or remote restaurant depend on the area), Experienced guide, insurance and other services on requested such as accommodation.

I'm an experienced mountain biker! Can I bring my own bike to join the tours and how much can I get discount?

If you are an experienced mountain biker, it is seem to be a good idea to bring you own bike in the tours to get more fun and more enjoyable trips. But it is not big effected to the tour's cost.

How many people in the tours?

Normally we are running the private mountain biking trip on requested, it is depend on you group size, which can be minimum of 2 persons up to 20 people.

What is booking condition of the tours?

Our policy is the client have to pay deposit 50% of the tour fee after confirmed the tours, cancelation booking 14 days before tour start will get 30% refund. If we cancel the tours you will get fully 50% refund.

Mountain Design (Thailand) has been running quality courses since 2000. Our safety record is outstanding, and we have never had a fatal accident or maiming injury incurred by either our participants or our staff.

Each trip is accompanied by at least 1 Tourist guide licence,1 instructor and 1 assistant Instructor, equalling a minimum participant to instructor ratio of 6 to 1. In most cases our Assistant Instructors are Thai Nationals who bring a vital cultural and linguistic element to the overall experience. They are well versed in the identification of local flora and fauna. The Assistant Instructors have CPR and Wilderness First Aid training. Mountain Design (Thailand) Instructors are a mix of highly qualified national and foreign national outdoor educators, They must have a minimum of CPR, First Aid and Wilderness First Responder training, extensive experience in leading expeditions and outdoor education.
Specifically related to injuries and evacuations, Our instructors are normally equipped to respond to most of the typical, but not necessarily frequent, incidents such as sprains, minor cuts, gastro-intestinal tract problems, infected blisters and dehydration related problems. However when a situation requires treatment from a physician, the participants will be evacuated by an instructor either on foot, stretcher, 4x4 or any kind of vehicles to the nearest hospital with special treatment due to our accident insurance covered.
The following is a brief description of each certification that our instructors have in order to provide a safe and adventure filled experience for participants.

First Aid Course: Due to the remote nature of our trips our lead field staffs are required to have successfully completed the First Aid Course. Certification from Hospital.

Instructor Scheme (Rock climbing and abseiling) - Australian School of Mountaineering
Our lead Instructor has successfully completed a course in Instructor Scheme (Rock climbing and abseiling) covers many aspects of Abseiling and rock climbing Activities and concludes with a thorough assessment of topic including Mountain Navigation Course, Advance Abseil / Improvised Rope Rescue Course, Accident Response & Mountain First Aid Seminar, Rock climbing Supervisor seminar, Technical Skills & Group Management seminar, Aid Climbing & Big Wall Technique.

Abseiling Leadership and Instruction - Australian School of Mountaineering
Our lead Instructor has successfully completed a course in Abseiling Leadership and Instruction covers many aspects of Abseiling leadership and concludes with a thorough assessment of topic including Abseiling, Ethics, Equipment, Site selection, Rigging, Risk Management, Teaching Methods, Technical Ability, Emergency Procedures and rescue.

Climbing Leader Course - Outland Expeditions Australia
Our lead Instructor has successfully completed a course in Climbing Leader Course: Topic including Rock climbing Techniques, Equipment, anchors, rigging, simple problem solving, vertical rescue, incident management, Cliff management.

Rapid Improvement Course - Canoe Kayak Education Australia (CKEA)
Our Instructor has completed a Rapid Improvement Course. And has many experiences in Canoe and Kayaking in many areas in Australia and Thailand.

Navigation Education - Bushsports Australia
Our instructors are also trained in Navigation Education, technical skills, Orientation by using GPS Technology, Map Reading, Compass skills and feature-based navigation.

PADI Dive Master :
While only our PADI Instructor conducts the SCUBA training section of our courses, Our instructors are trained and certified SCUBA divers. This helps them become more proficient at a number of water activities.

To make your mountain biking trip to be the most enjoyable for your holiday just  prepared for your trip, please read the following ability guidelines carefully. It is important that you find out the suitable level in your trip. Contact us for more details.
Our ability level is the minimum level required for that trip.

Fitness Level:

Level - 1
Exercise regularly. Are comfortable with sustained output at a relaxed pace for 3-4 hours a day for at least 2 days.
Level - 2
Exercise 2-3 times a week for 30 minutes or more. Can ride 4-6 hours per day for 2-4 in sequence days and are comfortable pushing and hiking with the bike for sections.
Level - 3
Exercise 3-4 times a week for 40 minutes are more. Are comfortable with maintain challenging pace including long periods of exercise. Can climb for more than 30 minutes, ride 6+ hours a day for over 4 days with some technical hike-a-bike.
Level - 4
Exercise 5 times or more a week for 40 minutes and more. Are comfortable with sustained challenging pace including long periods of exercise for more than 5 days. Are possibly training for an event.

Technical Level:

Level - 1
At least ten times ridden a mountain bike, can control bike speed and direction on smooth double track and rolling single track trails.
Level - 2
At least one year mountain biking experiences, can climb and down hill under control on moderately steep single track with loose rocks.
Level - 3
Over two years mountain biking experiences, are confident riding all types of single track, are able to ride small drops and jumps and downhill mountain biking technical steep sections including rocks drops and uneven roots.
Level - 4
Over five years mountain biking experiences, can ride very technical trails and including jumps, drops and narrow elevated trail sections.