Taitong Hotel Mae Sai

... las tribus que viven por alli, sin embargo, se les
permite el cultivo para uso propio. Nos llevo hasta Chiang Rai un conductor
de autobus loco que se creia que estaba haciendo un rallie por las montanhas.
El viaje se vio interrumpido por controles del ejercito debido a lo "delicado"
de la region, pero finalmente tomamos otro bus y un saamlaw que nos llevaron
hasta Mae Salong, cerca ...

... apply for the 60 day tourist visa.

Our last stop before heading south to Chiang Mai were 2 hill tribe villages, Akha and Yuan. Just a tourist trap although day to day living still does exist the families receive assistance from the Thai government which most hill tribes exist on their own without any help. The children run up to you asking for coins or sell you their handmade bracelets. I could have done without this stop after my exhaustive border crossing.

... have taken us four hours turned into a six hour slog and we didn't arrive at the border until 3.30pm.
Hello Myanmar, goodbye Myanmar, stamp stamp, thank you very much. In and out in ten minutes with a new fifteen day visa for Thailand. Mission accomplished, but we still had to get back to Chiang Mai before darkness set in. We had a quick, very ordinary meal in Mae Sai, the Thai border town, before starting our slow run back. Things really took a turn for the worse ...

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To this list I would add drinking beer with a German.

First, he will drink more beer than you, seem to be stone sober, and split the check 50/50, which is very blurry to you.

Second, he will talk endlessly about very uninteresting facts in his life which do not get more interesting with yet another bottle of Leo. ( In my case he opened his rucksack and pulled out a laminated ...

... After that we stretched and did some games with them. They really enjoyed Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Follow the Leader didn't go as well as planned, probably because it was such a large group. But they really enjoyed Red Rover and Duck, Duck, Goose. We used sidewalk chalk to draw boxes of colors, and played a game with that. Whenever we called out a color, they had to run over to the right one, and if they were the ...

... for students without thai citizenship and also the school in which our harbor house girls attend. We cannot wait to get started we have so many ideas and so many activites we want to do, at times it seems 5 weeks is not enough time but hopefully we will make an impact with the time we have. Hope everyone is doing well on your trips, be safe and may your projects be blessed. Warm Regards, Ian Brockhouse

... the day before and I could share a ride with Mariel to the border, combine it with a full tour on the way of stuff we both had not seen, her go across for her stamp and return to Chiang Mai, me get out and find my friends and start teaching. What a plan! Mariel had met a taxi driver who was willing to create a tour of the day and we agreed on the price. A day with Mr. Boon and Mariel - see some stuff in a private car and no need for bus to ...

... and I made a Gro Tong at the guest house and Dean cheated and bought one at a store opposite. At a rather late part of the evening we prised ourselves from the seats we'd inhabited for a few hours at a bar and went down to the riverside to add our offerings. So many people had come into town for the party it was heaving and we had to wait a while to place our floats into the water. The Mekong is a tricky customer and the water by the edges was swirling in all directions ...

... in a boat, on the way to Thailand was awesome and a dream come true. It was to take us at top speeds of up to 40 km an hour along the borders of China, Laos, Burma and finally into Thailand, at the Golden Triangle. The boat was speedy and pretty full, it could have cleared airspace given half a chance! We had a deck up top which we could use and in the sun, later on, we sat with new Thai friends sipping Leo beer and rice whisky. The views were, yes, lovely, and the ...

... of them. There were a few ways of doing this. The first way was asking for him to lift up his foot to create different ladder-like steps. Second, it was having the elephant completely lay down while you jump on its head and, then, it abruptly stands up while you're on its head. The last way and my personal favorite is using the trunk as a slide to get down. The elephant would bow its head with its trunk making a slide-like form and you simply slide off. Getting up using this move was ...