Mae Sot, Thailand Travel Blogs

Bugs, Gems, and Kickboxing
Dec 15, 2005 (20 photos)

Well, since I'm no longer keeping things secret for a shady aid organization, I can tell you that Classified is actually called Mae Sot. Last week a traveling carnival came through town, and with it we get a rare occasion to see Thais and Burmese getting ...

Off to Mae Sot
May 27, 2009

We left Sukothai in the morning and drove on a minibus to Tak.... here we switched to a big bus and drove for about another hour or so to Maesot....pretty boring day spent travelling. Booked into our hotel after choosing it from the limited ptions in the ...

New gal in town
Jun 11, 2007 (8 photos)

... I met a French woman and her 13 year old daughter who are spending two months just traveling around Thailand with no set agenda and came to Mae Sot to get away from the tourists.  Coincidentally, when I first arrived, Jeremy was here with a ...

On Mae Sot
Oct 30, 2006 (5 photos)

... with it and started to do ok. Wednesday night Meredith, an American woman who works at a reproductive health organization in Mae Sot called. I first met Meredith when she visited my office, to tell us about a new program her organization was implementing ...

Welcome to Americana
Jan 8, 2006 (4 photos)

Planning to make a visit to Chiang Mai in the morning, so we invite our friends to all come over for an American-style, homecooked meal. I make the basic pasta, noodle, potato, and meat combo, with a few fried pumpkin seeds. They are skeptical of the ...

Spontaneous Encounter
Mar 5, 2006

... his soapy head through the window and runs away. We play pool for hours, teaching each other the rules of pool games in Thailand, Italy, and the United States. Thailand has the easiest rules to play by. Italy's rules are very strategic. The US bar ...

Quick Outing
Apr 17, 2006

... , just the server girls playing cards. I sit down and have a Coke, so one of the girls sits with me, already sub-sober from the Mae Sot naam khao, rice wine. I'm in a joking mood. We talk for a while. Her name is pronounced Oh? and her friend is If. ...

Songkhran
Apr 14, 2006

Back at the house, it's Songkhran, Thai New Year and the Water Festival. There's not a stretch of road you can travel without getting drenched. This is a great idea for a hot climate festival. Anyone is allowed to splash water on anyone, by whatever ...

Meeting an old friend in a strange land
Nov 4, 2009

... chance for sightseeing. Well, certainly there isn’t much to see here. But the place is not what I envisioned: I thought Mae Sot, a border town that said to have a lot of illegal cross-border trades (including human-trafficking), must look seedy with ...

A Taste of Burma
Jan 29, 2007

... all the dodgy dealers congregate b) known to be the place to stay for the Myanmar secret service when they are in town. Mae Sot is definitely interesting from a cultural standpoint - walking the streets you get a bit of a flavour for what Burma ...

MaeSeraing
Oct 29, 2005 (1 photos)

... in the North on the country but this is pretty typical for a lot of Burmese refugees. The boat ride was pretty good, thailand mountain ranges on one side and Burmese mountains on the other, very good scenery but it was bloody hot sitting on the boat ...

Busy Day Ahead
May 29, 2009

... or make use of the day and renew our Thai visa and travel to Chang Mai.....considering we had exhausted all of the limited options in Mae Sot we decided to do the visa and travel .... A long day ahead. We grabbed a TukTuk and set off to the Burmese border ...

Traveler Foodie Note
Apr 1, 2007

... ; And the thing is, the food--both Thai (LOVED the refreshing bbq pork salad with cucumber on that very steamy first night in Mae Sot) and right, the Western (can't beat the tuna melt on bagel)--is the real deal.  So we got over our guilt ...

VBS in Klaw Taw Village
Jan 11, 2009 (8 photos)

... of Klaw Taw! The altitude is so high that the temperatures are MUCH cooler than any place we have previously visited in Thailand. All of us felt the cold even in our good sleeping bags throughout the night, and especially in the early morning hours. We ...

Work-day with Partners
Jan 12, 2009 (3 photos)

... a safe-house to visit and play with some children who formerly lived in the streets. Jocelyn spent the day in the Mae Sot office assisting with some accounting training and program setup. We all returned together for around 6:00pm for a special dinner at ...

Professors for a Day
Jan 9, 2009 (10 photos)

Well, today was quite interesting for us. As the guys continued to work on their building project with Matt, the ladies became professors for the day. We traveled to the village of Poe Praw and met Pastor Peacefully who had invited us to come to teach ...

Back in Mae Sot
Jan 12, 2009

We're back in Mae Sot from our amazing trip to the high country! We are all safe and sound, and very glad for warmer temperatures! We would not have believed that we could actually get cold in Thailand, but we surely did in the hills. We spent the last two ...

Day Three in Klaw Taw Village
Jan 11, 2009 (10 photos)

... , bright, full moon surrounded by sparkling stars in a clear sky. We made a couple of toilet stops, and even enjoyed some steaming noodles and Chinese tea at one stop to warm us up. Then it was onto Mae Sot to our hotel for a good night's sleep.

Childrens Home
Apr 9, 2007 (25 photos)

Not entirely sure where I left off, but I know I was heading to the orphanage some time soon. So, that`s where I`ll begin. Dada, the fellow from the Phillipines who runs the children`s home picked us up at the Burmese Inn. Now he was running about an hour ...

We're in Mae Sot!
Jan 7, 2009 (1 photos)

... 15-passenger van, so we will ride in-style today to the town of Mae Sot. However, not all of us will be going to Mae Sot. As previously planned, Terry and Jack will travel today with a Karen man named Write Dee in his four-wheel-drive truck named Alaska. ...

Travel to Klaw Taw Village
Jan 9, 2009 (15 photos)

Today we spent most of the day in traveling into the hills to reach the village of Klaw Taw. The drive lasted about six hours, and the scenery was incredible. We passed-by cattle grazing in the field that resembled Brahma bulls. The dense jungle, that ...

Tripple Missions
Jan 7, 2009 (10 photos)

... for us to leave. They sang us a song in their language, and walked us down the hill to our van. Upon our return to Mae Sot, we stopped by the Partners office, and received our instructions for the next day of ministry. It appears that we will be teaching ...

Exploring
May 15, 2007 (6 photos)

Exploring the countryside around Mae Sot in Northwest Thailand.

Volunteering
Jun 20, 2006

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It's been fun, but we're headed back to the jungle
Jan 8, 2009

Hello everyone! We've been in Mae Sot for the last couple days.  The guys on our team have been helping Partners lay concrete and build a house on a piece of land the organization recently purchased to use as a training center for the Karen refugees ...

A Fairytale
Apr 28, 2006

Here is the beginning of the story of the unmarked log with the fuzzy red cover. It starts in a country once called Siam: When Jack was born, the stars were in an unusual alignment. The moon went through all its phases in just one night. It waxed quickly ...

Jungle tour
Aug 13, 2009

Are in Mae Sot a quite strange place. Came by plain. In the airport there were no taxis so after a half hour we had to go out on the main road to find a taxi. I am in Town now a bit strange town were the dogs bites after you and the people are combination ...

Intro
Apr 29, 2006

On the cover of this log, I put a stamp of Thailand. I would like to make it clear that the content does not have to be strictly words and narratives. It can be poetry, drawings, lyrics, musical notes, pasted objects from the trip... Do it up. It ...

Myanmar (Burma)
Mar 21, 2008 (8 photos)

I caught a bus from Chiang Mai down to Mae Sot, a small town on the Thai-Myanmar border. I found a place to crash for the night and the next morning woke up to find out about the possibility of crossing over in to Myanmar. I found out real quick that it ...

Back In Mae Sot
Mar 2, 2006

... reach hard to get Internally Displaced People. Many of these are refugees from the Burma civil war and have poured into Thailand. Have been busy in Mae Sot for the time I was there. I also befriended a journalist who has lived in Mae Sot for the past 6 ...