Mae Sot Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I made it to my first day of school intact. The drive, my first on a motorcycle as driver, went through Mae Sot, out onto the freeway then off into the country side. The area we are in is beautiful in a very gentle way. Rolling mountains meet sugar cane and rice paddies, both just in the tilling stage as the heat of summer is at its peak and the...

What a wild few hours in Mae Sot!!!! No such thing as a learning curve here, just a flare of hope shot into the sky and either you grab it and go or you just don't go so.....grab I did. Arrived in Mae Sot on Sunday late - it was just getting dusk as I found Laura and Sharon and reviewed the new digs. No time to catch up on where we all had been ...

Yet another long and winding road. Through the northern Thai mountains from Chiang Mai to Mae Sot - finally travelling in the right direction. At the bus station I heard the young girl in front of me ask about a ticket to Mae Sot. Seems we would have to wait a few hours to get the direct bus so I told her I too wanted to go to Mae Sot and she, b...

Today we split our team again to perform various missions with Partners. The guys returned to the building-project to help Matt for the day. The ladies ordered and delivered lunch to the guys at the construction-site, and even helped putty some walls. Then they ladies traveled to a safe-house to visit and play with some children who formerly liv...

Today we spent most of the day in traveling into the hills to reach the village of Klaw Taw. The drive lasted about six hours, and the scenery was incredible. We passed-by cattle grazing in the field that resembled Brahma bulls. The dense jungle, that we were accustomed to, changed to an expanse of green, rolling hills. The slopes were planted ...

This absence from the blog came courtesy of a kidney infection that rendered me helpless for the last week and a half. If I haven't mentioned it yet or enough, it's the rainy season. It rains at least once a day and night, and because of this increased humidity, and the fluctuation in the barometer, many people come down with colds, fevers, and ...

The past weekend was a perfect mix of sightseeing and just beginning to live the summer life in Mae Sot. On Monday, events began to celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi's 62nd birthday, and it was an exciting time to be among the Burmese community. I have a ton of photos to add to this entry but they're not loading so I'll have to add them later. On Satur...

After a 6AM train from Albany, my journey started out with a little adventure as my luggage and I were drenched waiting outside Penn station in the pouring rain for a cab. I was nervous I was going to miss my flight and opted for that route rather than the subway to save time, but with traffic and the storm I'm not sure it made a difference. For...

In our haste to make up time, we rolled on into this border town, and straight back out. We may have stayed longer but I hate being anywhere with Mani that has an edge to it, and Mae Sot certainly has that and more. A varied mixture of inhabitants from across Asia, it does seem interesting but alarm bells started ringing when our hotel manager a...

Friends- I am not Catherine so be prepared for shoddy writing. Those English majors are a tough act to follow... Today we woke up in the border town Mae Sot, population 100,000. We walked to the morning market and passed the famous monks in saffron-colored robes. The monks form a semi-parade down the main street every morning. Their outstretched...