Maetee Hotel Mae Hong Son
Travel Blogs from Mae Hong Son
Pai to Mae Hong Son....biker's heaven!
... first of three different caves.
From there our little lady guide led us toward Russ's worst nightmare - a set of rickety, skinny stairs just about big enough for the ball of your foot at what seemed like close to a 60 degree angle for about three to four stories. How Russ managed to do it is beyond me, ESPECIALLY since he had to come down as well. For those of you who don't know, heights are NOT Russ's forte! I was too freaked out myself to even think ...
Höhlen im Dschungel
... mit Blätterdach ausgestattet war. Dem Boden, der nur aus geflochtenem Bambus bestand, trauten wir anfangs nicht so recht, jedoch lernten wir schnell die Vorzüge der luftigen Unterkunft zu schätzen. Tagsüber hielten wir uns im Haupthaus auf, welches liebevoll mit verschieden hohen Terrassen, einer Schaukel, einer Hängematte und einer Feuerstelle eingerichtet war. Nach asiatischer Bauart war das Haus offen und schenkte uns einen herrlichen Blick auf den umliegenden Wald. Die ...
892 Curves to Mae Hong Son
... world and can get supplies only by the use of these elephants.
We made it to the Long Neck village which is remote, no electricity, no running water, primitive plumbing. I do not know how they manage to live there. But they are illegal immigrants and the government offers them this land to live on and stay on. Anyway we went into the village.....they charged us 200B a person to go thru their village ($7). The people in the village we ...
220 K's, 2 wheels, 24 hours...Mae Hong Son or bust
... this being that we got some exercise in, but watching busloads of tourists arrive at the summit was particularly hard to stomach. As so often on this trip and ex-pat of a western country has told us an out-right lie, well, either that or they haven’t stepped a single food outside their house for the past 20 year and I’m starting to wonder what gem of a lie I’m going to hear next (that ...
Gentle Giants
... programme is a big part of how the park survives and after getting to know the elephants better (and the 85 dogs, 30 odd cats, water buffalos, cows and 1 pony and 1 sunbear :), seeing that they each have such big and wonderful personalities and knowing that they can now live a happy life amongst people who love them a lot, really made it all worth it. What I also liked was that Lek and her co workers have the dream of making their lifes even better by finally releasing ...