Golden Pai & Suite Resort Hotel Mae Hong Son

... einen kurzen Abstecher an einem Wasserfall, wo wir natuerlich auch kurz ins wasser gesprungen sind!<br>Im Hostel angekommen wurde erst mal wieder richtig schoen geduscht!<br>Meine Schuhe und Socken haben den Trip leider nicht ueberstanden und wurden erbarmungslos zurueck gelassen!! :)<br><br>Am Besten schaut ihr euch einfach mal die Bilder an, welche ich den naechsten Tagen mal hochladen werde, da ihr das Internet einfach nur brutal langsam ist und es stunden dauern koennte!! <br>

... Saing Dow (my Shan name he had given me last time, it means moon light), Thank you for remembering me, I have worn black everyday since my mother died, but tonight I am wearing white, in honor of old friend.' <br><br>I spent the next few days in Mae Hong Son visiting the boarding house. It took some rally off road motorbike driving to get there being the monsoon season, but words can not express how I adore the children there. As I walk up the step path and every single child wai ...

Well, there's not much to tell about this city near the border to myanmar... except for that I was pretty much the only tourist and the beautiful lake in the middle of the city... ;)<br><br>However, the busride (8 hours) to get there was just amazing. As soon as we left the city of Chiang Mai ...

... of nowhere. But the surrounding countryside is unbelievably beautiful, and the town has a great relaxed, hippie, bohemian nature about it. Over the years, a little international community has formed here, and Pai is growing more popular with tourists. I have a friend, Pip, who has been living in Pai for several months and always gushing about it, so I decided Jac and I should go visit her.<br><br> We flew to Chiang ...

... Mai who we now call Mark slasg Dave after an unfortunate and very embarrassing forgetting of names when we introduced him to a girld from our hostel who had joined us for dinner. More and more people from Chiang Mai popped up over the course of the evening which after dinner took up to a really cute little cocktail bar for Mai Thai's and guitar serenading. The guitarist payed us the Thai song that we had learned on our trek, the one line of which we ...

... he was doing his thing. Of course I didn't tell him I had to read every sentence about 6 times but I got through about 80 pages by the time he had finished up. Anyway I'm delighted with it, and Mark I think you'll be impressed, tell me what you think. <br>Went for a celebratory Beer Chang afterwards and now I sit here writing my blog on June 25th with a throbbing arm and really hungry so I bid you farewell.<br><br>26th - 28th June:<br><br>It seems like forever since this ...

... by a chorus of chat, a jumble of personal tales, of excitement, fears and expectations for the following day. No sooner had our plates been cleared, a group of village children had entered the room and with the help of two guitars entertained us with a variety of indigenous songs. We were expected to join in and were hand picked, one at a time, to get up in front of the group and dance with the village choir. When the finger was pointed in my direction I ...

... started chanting a blessing for the 5 Thai tourists visiting too), a beautiful waterfall (where Rachel and I got embarrassingly stuck trying to climb up what looked like an easy route to slide down a few metres into a pool while James took photos and laughed his ass off at us on the rocks opposite), a Chinese village, a Lisu restaurant, 'Coffee in Love' cafe, and some roadside elephant camps. At the waterfall we met a fella from Monaghan who of course ...

... magnificent views to be had but I read that there aren't really any on a clear day due to the lay out of the summit. There were 2 temples just short of the summit which were truly incredible. Built almost symmetrically each stood atop a set of stairs and within a really beautiful landscaped site. Given this was high up on the mountain it was very impressive despite the drizzle. I set off down the mountain towards my ...