On Saturday Ewan, Nicky and I left for a road trip to Pai and Mae Hong Song. Driving was very chilled out and we stopped off at some random points along the way including a fish cave which was actually just a little hole in the ground. Pai is like a hippy haven with cool markets.
We stayed in the mountains above Pai in little bungalows. Slept under a mosquito net to the sound of all sorts of creepy crawlies. Was such a beautiful place and the people that owned the bungalows were lovely and invited us to have dinner with them.
On Sunday we drove further through the mountains to Mae Hong Son. We stopped off in the mountains where Burmese Hill Tribe people lived. Mae Hong Son was lovely too, there is a lake and a gorgeous temple. Here's a picture of the temple - our guest house was just to the left: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Mae_hong_son_1.jpg
On the way back to Chiang Mai today we stopped off at a prehistoric place where they had Neanderthal graves etc! We ended up driving 200km out of the way in the end but we found the right track eventually.
My Thai visa runs out on the 4th December so I will be heading to Laos. Hoping to do some volunteering on an organic farm... not sure yet!
Looks wonderful and sounds like you're having a great time. More pictures would be good for us jealous people who can only dream of ever making this sort of trip!!
ReplyDeleteHey... I don't have a camera so there aren't going to be any pics... sorry! Only thing I can really suggest is Googling place names. Bit of a bummer though as seen so much cool stuff that I forget to write about on here! Hope all's well back in UK and you're enjoying the snow :)
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