It is Saturday night and we are in Mae Hung Son in far NW Thailand in a remote area of Thailand hugging the border with Myanmer. Just finished looking at the night market (night markets are out door sellers on the streets at night found in many Thai cities). Today was an amazing day as we traveled from Chiang Mai to here ---a distance of only 260 km. but it took all day....why you ask....well you are up and down every hill and there are over 1800 hairpin curves on this road.....I know this because they sell t-shirts telling you about the number of curves.....If you get car sickness, you will never want to see this road!!!!
We went caving today!!! There is a river that goes through a beautiful cave. You ride on these rickety bamboo rafts, can feed the fish in the cave, see millions of bats, hear frogs, and take side walking trips through the caves to see the formations, all lit be kerosene lamps carried by your raft driver.
We also visited the Karin hill tribe. This particular part of the Karin tribe are well known because many women elongate their necks by wearing rings around the neck.. They add rings as the neck is elongated. They believe this is very beautiful. Today, tourism is the draw tothis village which in some ways is unfortunate, but it helps keep this tribe out of total poverty which many hilltribes face. That being said, there is no starvation here. There is food and clothing, but little other modern conveniences.
We continue our touring of NW thailand tomorrow with more adventure.....got to be ready at 5 am, so goodnight.
Fred
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