The Lazy Moon Homestay Chiang Rai

... the girls gut them. Next, we rinsed them off and made a sauce out of salt, onion, chilies, and fish sauce and stirred it in a bowl with the frogs. Then, we put the frogs on the frying pan and fried them up until they were crispy. Lastly, we ate them. They were actually pretty good and definitely a Thai experience!

Then, we planted a field of peanuts. In the evening, we were taken to pray for 2 people who were ...

... still grow poppies because it's a cash crop and grows well in the mountains. Most of the hill tribe people are not entitled to Thai citizenship, neither are their children, which means restricted movement, in many cases, to their particular region. When you realise that many of the tribes originate in China, Loas and Burma (now Myanmar) you can see what the problem is for the Thais, give citizenship and open the floodgates. There's an ongoing situation ...

... was the next priority! well i eventually got to food carriage, via the lovely 3rd class seating, housing many people, animals and bags of rice and god knows what! seeing i was pretty much the only westerner i saw on the train, the only people in the food car were some fairly drunk and unsavoury characthers, hell bent on feeding me pork scratchings (great for the veggo). so i ordered the always relaible veg stir fry and rice and once delivered to my ...

... Talked to Kanchana about accounting. Although I work for Mirror Foundation and get paid 8000 Baht per month for that; Kanchana and I also have our own company and the work and extra pay from Antipodeans that comes in, goes into the company accounts. Today we received 422 508 Baht from Antipodeans, for 4 volunteers and one group of 11 volunteers. Out of that 314 000 Baht will go to Mirror Foundation and we'll keep 108 508 Baht for us. So that is good as we ...

... It was positively surreal to come around a bend in the track and face to face with the maker of said footprints - a HUGE bull elephant - shading under a tree quietly munching on a load of greens. Further along, the main camp housed something like 20 elephants. Mostly cows, their calves and a few juveniles. We really lucked in and arrived just as they were starting on cleaning the babies (one ...

... Then we were back in the minibus and on our way home. We stopped at the Yao and Akha Hilltribe Village also where the longneck Karen tribe live. It was very commercialised and Kev and I did not buy anything as the prices were definitely hiked up. On our way home the rain came down and by the time we got back to the hotel it was really pouring hard. Very tired tonight and just stayed in and watched TV and then to bed.

... yet it also means they are working more hours. Better for them to make money for their family, or to focus on school? It is a luxury to go to school and not to work. It's a touch choice. In Luang Prabang I recently bought 100+ turtles for my grandfather's upcoming 90th birthday party (turtles represent longevity) from a Hmong family. The mother and 2 daughters each had a space at the market. The girls were probably no older than 14, but they were ...

... so we see a bit of three different countries, amazing. We also went to a Opium museum, opium used to be massive up here, now its banded, still people will be growing it illegally behind the mountains. You can pay off the cops here for as little as $4. You may have seen in world news tonight about 54 Myanmar (Burmese) people suffocating in truck, Thailand is having trouble keeping people from Burma out as Burma is not in a good state at the moment. Tomorrow we fly south

... and there is no single cause of death. I advise just taking the mechanical treatments and leave the high concepts to others, maybe yourself. I passed a remote hospital in the Isan outback once advertising brain surgery. I'd pass on that, but some Bangkok hospitals are getting a world-wide reputation, and Chiang Mai's certainly acceptable for most procedures. I went in to a hospital in Chiang Rai a few days ago to get my ...

... we got there. the thai people made us a gorgoeus meal!!

Woke up on day 2 not having the highest expectations of the day as it was pouring with rain but thought i either have to stay in a muddy village or get the hell out of here so took the secondoption.
The morning of day 2 was really fun we were walking with spectacular views and had a bamboo stick to hold us from the mud. although.....my ****** market trousers ...