Now we've guessed our way through the blog website in Thai - we can let you know we're having a BLAST!
We got off the tourist trail almost immediately - hired a 250cc bike from chiang mai and reduced our bags even smaller (now only have a toothbrush and the clothes we are wearing) and are on the mae hong son loop. eating in very small thai houses, Andy trying everything (see the look on his face when he thought he bought a bag of soft chocolate and ended with a mouth full of fish paste!)...
We got off the tourist trail almost immediately - hired a 250cc bike from chiang mai and reduced our bags even smaller (now only have a toothbrush and the clothes we are wearing) and are on the mae hong son loop. eating in very small thai houses, Andy trying everything (see the look on his face when he thought he bought a bag of soft chocolate and ended with a mouth full of fish paste!)...
... staying in the most out of the way guesthouses, last night we stayed at mae lana, up an amazing valley nothing but mist and mountains and rice paddies around, and today 'grew' (planted) rice with the locals!
Today we also took a goat track up the steepest mountains imaginable through the jungle all the way, and made it to the myanmar border. we went through road block after road block, and the army men had bigger guns and bigger smiles the closer we got. ... by the time we got to the top, the sergeant with a sub-machine gun sold us a chang beer, taught us 'good luck' in thai 'chock dee na ka/krup') and after a companionable exchange, sent us back the way we came of course with a big smile. fantastic! its now teeming with monsoon rain .... yay! for Thailand. x
1 comment:
Hello happy travellers,
Well, that all sounds lovely but back here in Oz we don’t have time for such frivolity. We are far to busy locking up Pakistani doctors for owning mobile phones, implementing new laws which make ‘1984’ look like a fairytale, and giving clubs licenses for outdoor pokies (yay, I’ve always said we could do with more). On a positive note it is possible that this ridiculous nation will vote out Howard in next election. However, it is also possible that Kevin Rudd does not have any policies and may actually purchase all of Howard’s in his ‘end of reign’ sale.
Oh, and we got beaten in the World Cup – apparently that isn’t funny!
Love to you both. Have some som tum for me! And stay away from men with big guns.
Andrea xxx
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