Hot mineral springs. Boys sell you eggs that they lower into the water to cook for you.
Town welcome sign. Typical in the larger towns.
Stopped for some coffee. They had no decaf so I had some leek soup.
This was the Men's bathroom. First outside toilet I have seen so far.
We are heading up into those mountains
Beautiful day today.
Typical mountain road. Not enough room for two cars at one time. Have to beep the horn at every corner to let cars know you are coming.
On a coffee farm. Those are young coffee bean plants.
Cleaning up Mee's fathers grave.
Sim collects some Chayote greens for dinner.
Wrap them in a banana leaf for transport.
Mee, Som and Nun.
Are we done here?
Going on a little trek up the hill to survey the coffee bean plant.
Sim and Nun.
Watch out those papaya don't fall on your head.
It is nice and cool up here.
Nun reaches for a papaya.
Isn't she cute?
Back across the bamboo bridge.
Easy Sim.
Sim helps out.
They look like Mexican palapas
Forgot what these are called but they are interesting.
Yellow and white seem to be the prominent colors.
Sim poses with a hill tribe worker.
We found a party going on and joined in. These are the Akar tribe.
Sim doesn't quite fit in.
They dance in a circle and keep the beat with the bamboo.
The elders.
Nice Koi pond there.
Sim and Nun with one of the ladies.
Drummer keeps the rhythm going.
I think someone told a joke.
They were all chewing some kind of leaf. It made their teeth all black.
Stage set up for the party.
One of the elder statesmen of the tribe.
Colorful outfits even on the children.
Paying respect to the elders.
Offering gifts.
This is the guy on the Doi Chang Coffee package.
Sim and a guy we met who spoke English pose with the logo guy.
Intricate head pieces.
This gal is with it.
Paying respect to the elder ladies.
Lot of work in this hat.
Offering gifts to the ladies.
Food after the party.
Lots to eat.
More eating
The guys sit by themselves.
One of Mee's nephews. We are at Mee's moms house.
Mee's sister in law prepares dinner.
We are drinking homemade moonshine.
Nun gets dressed up in the Lisu hill tribe traditional colors.
Dinner. Outside on the ground.
The view from the house.
Killing a chicken to fix for lunch.
Plucking the freshly killed chicken.
Mee and Som brought a ton of books to give to the school in town.
Some of the school kids.
Boys being boys.
Sim inspects the coffee beans.
Nun getting her protection string bracelet.
I get one too.
Mee gets his. The guy says a prayer as he ties the string around your wrist.
Nun gets dressed up again.
Mee's sister cooks up lunch.
Chickens and Rooster running around everywhere.
Mee's mom is showing us her stash of yeast cultures that she uses to make her moonshine.
Sim and Mom.
This is part of the still where Mom boils her brew. They use corn cobs for fuel for the fire.
Lunch at the local noodle shop.
Visitor.
Packing up chayote greens to take to market. 15 kilos per basket.
Local group of neighbors.
Som, ......, Mee, Nun and Sim
