Centara Mae Sot Hill Resort
Check rates and availability for this resort
Find the best prices for Centara Mae Sot Hill Resort from our 10 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Mae Sot
Meeting an old friend in a strange land
I am in Mae Sot, a border town on the Thai side, across the river from Myanmar, and I am here not because I want to cross the border here. I am here to see a friend.
Diane was a PCV in my part of Ukraine, so we became good friends. She returned to the US and joined the Homeland Security Dept, becomes a Refugee Officer and now is working …
Hot spring, waterfall et douceur de vivre thaï
Mais le lendemain, se repose la question : Que faire dans cette province ? On a beau lire et relire le guide reçu à l'office du tourisme, tout a l’air compliqué : trop loin derrière nous, trop difficile d’accès, trop cher, trop pas sur notre route, trop difficile sans équipement … On décide finalement de se rendre à Mae Sot, une ville proche de la frontière birmane, et de tenter de rejoindre de là le petit village de Mae Kasa, ses chutes et sa source ...
...and life will never be quite the same.....
... stop the tears. And this camp was only one of so many others along the Thai / Myanmar border. That experience will not leave me.....ever. I think about those people now every day and my heart just bleeds for them. As for the children....I can't even begin to imagine their little lives. Where the heck do you even begin to solve the immensity of this problem. I guess you just have to pick one little piece and know that this is all anyone can do. Since we got back I have ...
Rust
... stroomde de waterval.
In Umphaeng, niet ver van Mae Sot, stroomt ook een waterval. De Thi Lo Su is de grootste van Thailand, en zogezegd de 6e van de wereld. Via een trek en rafting kan je bij de waterval komen. Het is nog even de vraag of wij dat nog willen doen...
Patcharoen is niet zó groot, maar wel groot. De waterval strekt zich lang uit, met vele plateaus waar je in kan liggen. Dat hebben wij ook gedaan. Een beetje omhoog gelopen om de ...
A Taste of Burma
... the old women's dinner next to us to order our food, we had no idea what she was eating! It turned out to be a nice soup and a Pad Thai which were both very tasty. We managed to pay after much sign language and giggling from the ladies cooking. I think they enjoyed having us there and we enjoyed not knowing what we were going to be eating.
We had a look round a couple of temples one called Aranyachet and checked out a herbal sauna too. The sauna was ...