Doi Tung Lodge Chiang Rai

... season and he had little work. One of the tour options was to go to the Burmese border, The Golden Triangle. We have already been to Burma, so the long drive to the boarder seemed silly. (Although I was curious about the Opium Museum at the boarder.) The other option was more village hiking around the more famous of the Karen tribes, the long neck tribe. Chris had been here before and he basically said you feel like you are at a zoo. So I had ...

... prayed for them as well. It was a really awesome night, and we believe that God is moving here at the Bible School. Also, 2 people from our team have gotten pictures of a volcano erupting while praying for Thailand and even our time tonight. When a volcano erupts, ash fall for days, and we really believe that ash will fall for days on this Bible School as well as every where else we go in Thailand.

... eat out (which they do a lot actually) quite often the Thais will get take away. So they will go to the market, or a stall (or several) and buy dinner in plastic bags to take home and eat. They have this way of bagging food, including soups, sauces, dips and drinks in plastic bags, leaving lots of air in the bag so it puffs up and is quite taught, and then tying it up with elastic bands. They never seem to leak, I'm amazed. Today in ...

... southern town of satun. it was an early start and in seemingly common fashion, it was yet to be an epic land journey ahead! basically thailand has had its fair share of problems over the years, such as the tsunmai,bird flu,martial law being declared and governennt being overthrown,to the recent airport demonstrations in bangkok etc.. so tourism kind of slumped somewhat. previously one could get a 30 day,on the spot visa, arriving by land or air. but in ...

... number of old and historic temples to visit. The biggest one that we went to is called Wat Phra Kaew and it was very popular with both foreign and domestic tourists. According to legend, a Buddha image made entirely out of jade (but called the Emerald Buddha for some reason) made its way to this temple in the 14th century. The Emerald Buddha is told to have been made in India over 2200 years ago and was on its way to Burma in the 14th century when the wagon broke down ...

... so as we can get education to Burmese kids that are crossing the border each day to go to Thai schools, and also to kids of Shan farmers that are working in orange farms but are all illegal workers and have no ID and so currently the kids avoid school - that was approved. We had some unpleasent issues to deal with, with one company that sends volunteers here - got that done. Apair (from the first report in this series ...

... and unbalanced, very awkward for moving around. Plus, when she was looking in her change purse for me, she had to hold it up to her face because she couldn't bend her neck to look down to her lap. These ladies never take off the rings, even to sleep. Just once a year they remove them to add another coil. Here is more info on the villages: http://www.chiangdao.com/chiangmai/kare nlongneck.htm

... for, but difficult to fulfill sometimes. Hill Tribe Ethnic Museum in Chiang Rai, Thailand: http://www.pda.or.th/chiangrai/hilltrib e_museum.htm A Few of My Favorite Things in Laos, in no particular order Traveling with Sid and Josh - we finally made it! After all the planning and talking, we made it to Laos - good times! Our road trip in southern Laos which took us all the way down to Cambodia to see the endangered river dolphins. Bi Mai (New Years ...

... enkele dagen naar Phuket te gaan in een appartementje dat zij gehuurd had. De dagen daarvoor waren ook wel leuk, enkele keren uit geweest in Chiang Mai, heb daar ook 'kennis' gemaakt met een Amerikaanse rambo, dat was ook weer eens iets anders! Phuket dan was echt plezant. Het appartementje lag op wandelafstand (mototaxi-afstand) van Patong beach en de eerste dag hebben we daar dan ook een hele dag aan het strand gelegen. Gesoigneerd dat we daar ...

... op 100 monninken langs. Heel leuk om te zien maar als we dit eerder hadden geweten.. Dan hadden we lekker uit kunnen slapen en enkel de deuren van ons balkonnetje open hoeven te doen maar ach..<br><br>Nou daarna werden we om 9.00u opgehaald om te gaan kajaken!<br>Uiteindelijk zijn we met z'n 6-en er heen gegaan. Martijn en Erik, Nicolle en Michiel en wij dus. De tocht was mooi, heerlijk stroomafwaards. Met zo nu en dan wat stroomversnellingen (dit mochten ...