Sunday, July 26, 2009
Another Update From Colin
We've gotten another email update from Colin and his travels in South East Asia.
“Quite an adventure since the last email, I am now in Chiang Mai off to Laos tomorrow for a visa run. A tourist visas in Thailand are only good for a month, by popping into Laos I get an extra month added on (only 2 weeks for Cambodia or Malaysia) but I still might pop to our birth place near the end of my trip.
We just finished a 3 day hike to the highest peak in Thailand. This included staying at two tiny Karen villages for a night each. The first village was really just a one family farm in the middle of nowhere, took us about 5 hours hiking in the jungle to get there. Got pissed on homemade rise whiskey chatting to our guide long into the night (about midnight as we were shattered hiking up and down). Then on to a 5 family Karen village the next day which was something else. Water Buffalo wandering around , usually in the way of the shitter. Pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, rats & kids running all over the place, killed a chicken for dinner and learned some great Thai cooking. As far as the hiking, do you remember the terrain in up-state New York? Very similar trails to the ones in the Adirondacks. An afternoon of elephant riding on the second day really rested the legs, you would be shocked the mountain trails these huge elephants were managing, slipping and sliding down the mud (it rained the entire hike bar the last afternoon).
I also managed to get some fishing in on the river Kwai, caught only one little fish, but still have my gear and hope to do some more fishing in the second half of the trip. Hope all of you are doing well.”
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