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Mae Sot Slideshow
Mae Sot
Travel Blogs from Mae Sot, Thailand
On Mae Sot
... but I stuck 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 ...
One month down and loving it
... how they prepare these treats. Thursday night we met Derek and Irislee and their children for supper. They organise a project called imagine Thailand and with their four children (aged 8, 10, 12 and 14 I believe) have lived in Thailand for 10 months, ...
Welcome to Americana
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 ...
"You are my teacher and you are crazy!"
... REALLY fun to all make paper aeroplanes, decorate them and write on them where we dream of going. As all of my students are stuck in Mae Sot and can't leave, we talk a lot about where they would like to go and what they would like to do, and I'd like to ...
The harsher realities
... stopping every single car and motorbike.. They let me go right through, but I have to admit that there are a couple things in Thailand that stress me out. Like the military that carry loaded guns all over the place and on the backs of trucks everywhere. ...
Spontaneous Encounter
... 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
... , 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
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 ...
A Taste of Burma
... where 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 ...
Border Run to Myanmar
... to get out of the wilderness. Before going anywhere else really cool though we had to head back to Maesot. We had been in Thailand nearly a month and our visas were about to expire. We can apply for extension at the Embassy in Bangkok, but that costs ...
MaeSeraing
... I am the only white face. Anyway, went down the the river yesterday and picked ap a longboat ride along the border between Thailand and Burma, the driver of the boat was a old Burmese bloke that spoke perfect English, he lives in Thailand now but is not ...
Busy Day Ahead
... 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 ...
Traveler Foodie Note
... ; 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
... village 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 ...
Work-day with Partners
... to 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 ...
Mae Sot - Reisen etwas anders
... und meine Emotionen haben eine Rollercoaster fahrt hinter sich. Ich durfte viele neue Erfahrungen machen. Angefangen hat es mit dem köstlichen Sushi. Mae Sot ist nicht gerade der Ort, wo man dies erwarten dürfte. Weiter ging es mit den Tagen an denen ...
Professors for a Day
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
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 ...
Day Three in Klaw Taw Village
... , 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 ...
Childrens Home
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 ...
We're in Mae Sot!
... be going with the team to Mae Sot, so we will catch-up on Jack & Terry's adventures later. The four-hour drive to Mae Sot was beautiful and peaceful, and we arrived in the afternoon to our new hotel (the Poon Na Gun). It was built just last ...
Travel to Klaw Taw Village
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
... 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 ...
Meeting an old friend in a strange land
... 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 ...
My Home Away from Home
... Canada for my sisters wedding, and my first couple weeks here in Auckland. But for now I wanted to conclude my time in Thailand with an article I wrote for the Baan Unrak newsletter from the perspective of a volunteer. Baan Unrak was my home while I was ...
Should one travel to a military dictatorship?
So this is my first trip away from the typical tourist destinations. I am off to Mae Sot to see a friend...or one of those random connections which when you are travelling turn into friends. My sister's friend from Oxford who is working for an NGO on ...
First actual day of trek
A not so early wakeup this morning at 8 am, all of us needed to be packed and ready at 9, for breakfast. Mr umph and his band of men arrived at 9:15 to brief us on our water rafting for the day and to pack and load the bags onto the trucks. By then it ...
Karen Church
Today we visited Mae La again. Today was a special day for Pastor Arthur's church because it is his 10th year of preaching there. We had Clasper's coffee again, and it was great! They also served us Karen Cake, a sort of banana flavored ...