Chaing Mai was great! We flew from Vietnam safely, took a fantastic Thai cooking course, coconut soup, red, green, yellow curries, stir fry and so many wonderful dishes...
The following day we met Tee, from Pooh Eco Treks (yes, really) drove three hours into the wilderness-
We stayed with Dong and his family, a three room wooden shack in the Karen Village
They cooked us a great curry, and we played soccer with the children and sang songs, they even cooked a mouse on a stick GROSS. I did not try it but Robin did try chicken balls .... At 4 am the roosters started, who live under the hut, under our heads basically... after breakfast and learning more about the Karen culture, meeting the tribes animalism Shaman (who had a full set of black teeth from chewing tabacco) we took off for the river into the jungle.
The second night we stayed in a hut on a waterfall- it was gorgeous! Tee our guide and his 10 "cousins" cooked us amazing meals, and we watched them prepare everything (cups, utensils, knifes and all the food) in bamboo from the forest... Even our "packaged" lunches were wrapped in banana leaves. UNreal and so effiecient. We stayed up playing Uno with the tribesmen and thenext day trekked again through the jungle, saw an actual Gibbon jumping around in the trees and walked with bamboo torches through a bat cave.
What an experience! So amazing to see how simple these people live in the hills. The only thing the goverment provides for them is one solar panel for each house for electricity...
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