Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Pooh Eco-Trek, Chiang Mai, Thailand






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Words can not describe the last three days spent in the mountains near the Burma border.






















































The pictures will have to tell the story here. In short, we hiked around 4 hours a day through jungle, rivers, valleys, bamboo and rice fields. We stayed with a hill tribal village called the Karen Tribe one night and in a bamboo hut on a river the second night. We ate frog, fresh produce, drank rice whisky, slept in mosquito netting, used primitive outhouses and bathed in the river.












































































































For a girl who "loves not camping", I think I did pretty well, came out with only minor scrapes and bruises and went temporarily native. However, I was glad to come back to a massage, a soft and warm bed and western toilets.