Wattana Village Resort Tak

... it didn't feel fun at all to be packing up our bags and handing them over to be stored for the day, but alas! his is the nature of travel and Chiang Mai is one place we will most definitely be making it back to. <br><br>We spent most of the day lounging around and drinking coffee, I still can't get over how good the coffee is up her and wished that I had of picked up a bag, although we are ...

... get asked for passports, ID cards and get a drilling, me: well they pretended I wasn&#8217;t there, I didn&#8217;t mind. <br><br>Stumbling off the bus at sparrows **** into the still dark dawn and trying to negotiate a good price for my tuk tuk into town wasn&#8217;t the easiest task. Actually tuk tuk is too big a word, scooter with trailer strapped to the back is more appropriate. Anyways managed to share the ride with a Burmese man, and as we bounced through the ...

... but we didn't. We were tired from the long day of traveling and Collin &amp; Beau had gone drinking at some club called Spicy Disco. I will tell you this though, Bangkok is laden with transvestites, cheap alcohol and amazing street food. Even though the padthai vendors are completely unhygienic and violate every FDA regulation known to man, they make some delicious ****! I craved it the next day and I crave it now, but alas, they are only found in Bangkok for some reason. Also, if ...

... following community based sustainable development projects - A local youth tour guide training program - Income generation for hilltribe families via homestays and handicrafts - Recruiting foreign volunteers for hilltribe schools Our sustainable tourism venture (which we have yet to find a name for) offers homestays and guided trips around Mae Hong Son. 'We' are about many things. 'We' are about paying a fair price to ...

... tours of the shops and then the ************ buying souvenirs. The photo I included is of a carved wall hanging that takes over 6 months to create and costs $7000. That is a fortune when you consider that hotels are $12 per night and meals are about $2. I finish yoga tomorrow and then I plan to head further notrth in Thailand to cross the boarder into Laos.

... smell till we said we would take the room, and collected his commission...*******! The guest house was lovely, with a large communal dining area and plenty of space for drinking Chang, well lovely until we went back to our room and discovered a entire extended family of bed bugs lived in our mattress, after half a can of fly spray and some swearing and cursing we decided it ...

... proprietors. Kids are everywhere, shouting "hello teacher" wherever I go. I stop outside KWO's office to talk to Let Let Win, but she's busy entertaining some American aid agency representatives; loud Californians, here to see where their money is going, horribly mispronouncing the Karen language greetings they attempt. Let Let Win looks right through them, like they were snake-oil salesmen. I meet one of the students I'd interviewed the other day. He asks ...

... painting, the entire camp lies beneath steep limestone cliffs, a labyrinth of winding trails and tightly packed bamboo huts perched on steep hillsides, trees and homes clinging to the mountains. It is actually incredibly beautiful, and I imagine that it will become some sort of tourist resort someday, the day all the inhabitants wait for, when they get to go home. Meanwhile, sacks of rice and soap are being distributed, children shout wide-eyed hellos, chickens peck, and pigs ...

... settled at the site of Sukhothai in about the 12th to 13th centuries. Following this I hired a bike, and visited Wat Mahathat (the Royal temple) - biggest one where the sound and light show happened, then Wat Si Sawai, Sat trapang Ngoen and Wat Sa Si - the lilly temple. Then got somebody from the Vitoon internet cafe to burn 2 CDs of the photos from my camera, and she helped me to catch the 1pm Bus to Chiang Mai.

Ok, we may be the only tourists in Thailand who after being at one border town, headed almost directly for another... But Idan is interested in gem trade, and i am interested in staying away from the standard "LOOK I'VE GOT A THAI GIRL WITH ME" tourist. After a long night taking a bus from Chang Rai to Tak, and then finding out the next bus to Mae Sot was at 2 or 3am. We hung around the bus station a bit trying to see if the taxi driver ...