Mae Hong Son
Travel Blogs from Mae Hong Son, Thailand
Doi Suthep- Part V: Dreaming
Dreaming, they say, is the mind's playground. At Doi Suthep, where I don't even allow my mind the luxury of getting up and stretching its legs during the day, dreaming becomes more like Disneyworld, a rollicking and ...
Election day
... their vote. I doubt that there will be any demonstrating in Pai whatever the result may be; people are just too laid back here. Next stop, either Sopong or Mae Hong Son. The latter is holding a festival in a couple of days so it might be worth a ...
Doi Suthep- Part VI: Practicimitation
... --------------------------------------------------------- Bangkok Times January 8, 2008 Man Reaches Enlightenment in Under A Week! Doi Suthep, Thailand: In a startling development that has rocked the religious community, Buddhist monks at ...
Mae Hong Son
Greetings from Mae Hong Son, where I've been relaxing for the past few days. It's a neat little town of about 8,000 residents in Northern Thailand, only a thirty-minute flight from Chiang Mai and just south of Myanmar's ...
Elephant Nature Park
... enough drinks when we're home we might demonstrate the genious of it to you! Day 3 Day 3 and the rain started! Rain, in Thailand….it’s not the rainy season! But rain it did. Constantly. Our job for the morning was cutting corn so ...
Long Necked Karen of Baan Nai Soi
... their village and farms and continue their lives. Other groups have followed and now there are about 5 Padong villages in Thailand. They weren't ignored as they are a fascinating group who is otherwise very difficult to visit. The tourist industry ...
Poy sanglong festival
Just a few hours from Pai but on a terrible road. The city is covered with the mist all year long. Maehongson gains its nickname of "the City of Three Mists" from the fact that it has dewy mist in the winter, forest fire mist in the summer and rainy ...
Sat 27 Jan 2550
... to wait for a while as actually yesterday was when I should have flown to Chiang Mai and now I should be on a flight to Mae Hong Son. I feel quite stupid having stuffed up the dates,misread the ticket, and even worse as that is the 2nd time I have done ...
Back in Pai
A bigger mention in the lonely planet and recommendations by word of mouth have all had their effect on this travellers' oasis of the north. The profusion of new places to hang out has spread out the tourists among the small town, creating a much less ...
In Thailand: TESOL course and Alex visits
... . They lasted about 15 minutes, before getting onto the floor which they obviously thought was more comfortable. We arrived in Mae Hong Son, found Mong and explored. WOW!!! Mae Hong Son is a beautiful small, clean, friendly town with cool mountain ...
Sunday 28 Jan 2550
... waiting for a dinner of Penang curry to come out as I overlook a lake, Shan style Buddhist temples and mountains. I am in Mae Hong Son which almost seems to be another planet. Reading the papers the news of the world seems largely about a stupid war in ...
29 Jan 2550 - Jim arrival in Mae Hong Son
... out and saw the Long Necked Karen people and I gave them some photos I had developed of them. That night we ate in Mae Hong Son, explored the markets, brought some food for Buddhist monks tomorrow morning and had a beer or two. Jim is having a great ...
River Rafting
After an excellent 2 days rafting down the Pai River I'm now in Mae Hong Son which is a little town near the Burma border. The rafting was great fun. The first day we drove for about an hour before reaching the river, which was a lovely brown colour (a ...
Mae Hong Song, Pai , Tha Thon and Mae Salong
... (used our sleeping mats) views of the lake, great little sitting areas and very "friendly" staff. Took things pretty easy in Mae Hong Song, a great weekend market was one of our first excursions; just on the edge of town. Very bustling and no tourists ...
Mae Hang Son
... due to a landslide....nice!!! Quite glad we've just purchased ear plugs as well...hear no evil, see no evil! Mae Hong Son is a very pretty little town with a Wat overlooking the town offering great views and icecream!!! The Wats here are more Burmese ...
Caught the exciting 20 min flight from ...
... of themselves posing next to them. During the 3 days i visited the villages i managed to get through 7 rolls of film! After the 3 days in Mae Hong Son i caught the return flight back to Chiang Mai where i made final plans to travel overland to ...
Noch mehr Kurven
Heute ging es dann weiter Richtung Mae Hong Son! Eigentlich waeren wir noch gerne ein bisschen in Pai geblieben, aber wir wollten gerne auch noch Mae Hong Son sehen und so langsam wird die Sache mit dem Thailand Visum knapp. Auch diesmal haben wir wieder ...
Höhlen im Dschungel
... malerische Berglandschaft die uns umgab ließen es uns so vorkommen als ob wir zum ersten Mal Fuß im „echten Thailand" gefasst hatten. Unser eigentliches Ziel jedoch lag außerhalb des benachbarten Ortes Tam Lod. Hier versteckte sich im Wald die ...
Boozing to Mountains!
Hello, So last time I wrote was Tuesday the 6th and I was going to go to Soppong the next day…. So it actually took me till Friday to get out of Chiang Mai! I think I was exhausted after non-stop travelling and seeing stuff. Ive kinda developed a ...
Mae Hong Son
Hey there, just a quick one today and sorry about no photos but this comp won't let me!!!!! Today Caroline and I rented a moped for the day and went exploring. Nice and cheap and cost 330b for both of us including fuel... Thats about 4 pounds. It ...
Rafting
Heute hatte wir uns ne Raftingtour gebucht. Abfahrt schon um 08:00 Uhr und in 1,5 Stunden geht es dann mit dem Pick up zum Startpunkt. Nach der vom Verantstalter versprochenen "Sicherheitseinweisung", die hauptsaechlich aus der Frage bestand ob wir auch ...
The beautiful north-west
... ended up on the same bus as our old friend Andrew (which is a pretty big coincidence as there are buses every hour). Mae Hong Son is a stunning example of how beautiful the Burmer border region of Thailand is and that's a definitely worth a ...
Spew, poo and some more travelling!
... get on the next day's bus back to Chiang Mai and travel to Sukothai direct from there. So after a whole 14 hours in Mae Hong Son, which I had slept through most of, I jumped on yet another bus. Luckily the scenery was beautiful and I have no regrets ...
MHS on Route 1095 - lots of turns!
Pai to Mae Hong Son and the water is still flowing. (235 km from Chiang Mai to MHS and again on the way back and thousands of turns) We liked MHS better than Pai but given I didn't like the guesthouse we stayed in Pai (it was too dark, claustrophobic ...
Thinking About Not Thinking.
... . This was one of the few times I have been genuinely cold in the past ten months, the hills and altitude of Mae Hong Son province can mean that night time temperatures can be the lowest in the whole country. After attempting some morning meditation in my ...
Nord Thailand - Mae Hong Son Nationalpark
Nationalpark Die Strecke von Pai nach Mae Hong Son betrug ebenfalls 130 km. Diesmal gab es auch Paesse die die 2000 ueberschritten. Ich war ja schon von der Fahrt von Chiang Mai nach Pai begeistert, aber die hier war um Laengen besser ! Wir sind um 10:00 ...
sad day
... before lunch at the orphanage, a visit to another hilltop temple, and a brief visit to the gym. We've discovered the Mae Hong Son leisure centre, which is free for anyone - even farang - to use. As I can't run at the moment (sprained my ...
Mae Hong Son e dintorni.
Mae Hong Son la consiglio di cuore. La maggior parte dei backpackers si fermano a Pai e quelli che hanno poco tempo nonsi spingono oltre CHiang Mai! Secondo me invece vale veramente la pena arrivare fino qua. Poi non e' cosi' remota come localita, sono ...
