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| The beautiful landscape We ate lunch at the restaurant outside the arboretum and then we were off to Mai Sai. The city that hosts the border of Burma and Thailand. Everyone else that came with crossed the border but my two friends from Lampang and I weren't allowed to so they said see you in two hours have fun. Of course we went shopping, I got lots of gifts to bring back and two 100% sterling silver rings for myself. After this we drove about three hours up to Phu Chi Fah. We ended up in a house which had no hot water, so I took a cold shower on top of a very cold mountain. Then we made dinner on the floor and went to bed. My friends and I got up at 4 am to get dressed in our warmest clothes and got in the back of a pick-up for 15 kilometers up to the drop off point. After that we walked about three miles up a mountain, in sandals and in the complete dark. It was quite a challenge. Once we got up there we waited for about 2 hours to see the sunrise and finally it rose but we never saw the sun it was too foggy so we hiked back down and went back to the house to pack up. We left the mountain and drove to the border of Thailand and Laos it also leads to Malaysia and China. Then we stopped at the waterfall near my city and then they took me home and dropped me off. After I got home I went and took a long nap, I'd been up since 4 am and then I just hung out for the rest of the night. On Monday I went to Tai my new American friends wife's house. My host mom left for school without me so I had nothing to do. I hung out at her office and have done this everyday since. I also got a job teaching her daughter how to read English three nights a week. She picks me up after I teach at Joe's and then takes me to her house for dinner and hour of teaching her daughter Nadia and then I get about a half an hour to an hour of Thai lessons from her. Our arrangement has worked out perfectly and she is so nice. That's whats new in my world. Until Later, Dacotah Smith |
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Belated Phu Chi Fah Weekend
So this weekend I went to the Mountain called Phu Chi Fah. In translation it means mountain that touches the sky. I met my group of friends in Phayao about an hour from Chiang Kham. I met them on the side of the road at 8 am and then I climbed in the van and we were off. We first went to Doi Tung, to the a university arboretum.
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Sounds like teaching is something you are enjoying. That's too bad you weren't able to see the sunrise, what a bummer to get all the way there and you were fogged out. Was the group Rotary friends or xpats? Hope you have a great week. It's going to be 25 below tonight, so think about that the next time you have a cold shower, brrrrrrr!
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