Day 23

Fly to Chiang Rai, couldn't get an early plane so took the second flight out with our guide Oot. He bought food (cash me) and we waited in restaurant. then walked a little ways to boat dock -- took long flat motorized boat up the Mai Kok river to Karen Village, a village where various Karens (red, etc.) had come down from the hills to live. from there, on elephant back (elephant name was Me Bunne) up rather steep and muddy hill to a Yao Village. It started to pour just before we arrived. Interesting features -- animals under huts, headdresses like Turbans, jackets with red fur/fringe. Oot's a good cook. Smoke filtered cigarettes through a bamboo bong.

written by  shoshtrvls on August 23, 1987 from Chiang Rai, Thailand
from the travel blog: Around the World (1987)
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