Tucker, Rob, Angie, Lin and Tuyet
Rob and Tucker, Finals Day
White Team mates
Seattleites
White Team - finalists (Rob missing)
Anne is serious about this Boat Race and Luke can't wait for everyone to finish
Anne
Roberto (most spirited)
Luke receiving 2nd place prize
Angie
Ethan, Green Team spirit winner
My lotus on the left, teacher's on the right
Tuyet carving her lotus
Final products
Tom Jued, Clear Soup with Minced Pork
Paw Pia Tord, Spring rolls - before deep frying
Class Spring Rolls
Demo Curry
My Curry
Sompon Nabnian, school founder, demos Chicken with Ginger
Gai Phad King, Chicken with Ginger
Lin, Sampon, and Tuyet feeling quite full
How to wrap the chicken: Put the chicken in the house
Gai Hor Bai Toey, Chicken in Pandanus Leaves
Random parade in Chiang Mai
East Wall of the old city
Luke and Ethan on top of the east wall
Som, 3 degrees away, a local who showed us around other parts of Chiang Mai and brought us to this nice Thai restaurant
Chiang Dao Nest view
Luke and Mike on the way to trekking
Ticket in
Driving up to the trekking location
Another cave, we didn't go in
Mike and one of our guides at the real cave entrance
The Glowing Bottle
And the man behind it
Crawling through the caves
Our guide holding a hot wired flashlight
SOUND: http://dlinhsu.googlepages.com/SND_3625ChiangDaoCave.wav
Getting down low
Low ceiling demonstration - Luke and Ethan are crouching. Tuyet can stand full height
Our guides
The only snake we saw in the cave
Delicious Lunch #1
Mike, the only one to fully go in the water and juggling here
View from our overnight housing in a Lisu village
Many pigs were running around, making lots of noises, but pretty much afraid of us foreigners
Amazing Dinner #1
In the midst of everyone laughing, I tried to capture the moment. Funnily, I caught these two looking completely bored instead.
Luke tries to make up for it with overdone posed enthusiasm
The dinner area, with a no pressure store wall on the right, and a very large porch (not pictured) to the left looking out over the hill and into the mountains
Sunrise
These pigs were in our trekking path - and they all scampered down the hill before I could get a picture of all of them
Giant pig and baby pig
Hilltribesman, who offered the men home rolled cigarettes
Ethan dancing with the extremely friendly hilltribeswoman, who first came offering a pickled dish
Luke trying to join while still holding his tea
Much tapping and stomping of the feet
Bracelet ceremony, with tying and blowing
Cave #2
VIDEO: Hilltribe Dancing
Tuyet playing the cave drums
Luke, Tuyet and our guide. He held Tuyet's hand most of the way since she didn't have her own light. I think he quite enjoyed it.
Chopping bamboo
Preparing the fire
Carving our bowls
Heating the wok
My goofball companions, enjoying a rest on the mat
Adding the noodles
Carving our chopsticks
Our mindblowing lunch #2
Karen Village: Night #2
Enjoying Dinner #2 outside a Karen hut
Ethan and I shared the girl elephant
Luke and Tuyet's elephant went charging into the brush to rip out a banana tree
Bamboo rafting down a shallow river
We beat our competition down the river
Tuyet's birthday dinner celebration. This is my dinner of a Chiang Mai noodle dish
Tuyet's birthday cake
Chiang Mai Chinatown - Chinese New Year celebration
Giant vat of fried goodness (fish cakes)
Tuyet enjoying the bag of mangosteens I got for her
Street food
Dragon Masks
Dessert
On the train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok
The non-AC seats on this train were much narrower than our previous AC sleeping berths
Nu and Tuyet, on the beach
Alek on west raileh beach
Nu's little brother, the DJ
Alek
Fire players
Brothers
Yawt, climbing instructor who pointed us in the right direction for a good lunch place
Tuyet on the way to the Lagoon
Bad flash making Alek look possessed
Lagoon
Enjoying the water
Looking up
Beautiful water reflections on the rock walls at the lagoon
West and East Raileh viewable on the way down from the Lagoon hike
Leaving Raileh
VIDEO: Alek blowing fire
Bangkok Night Market cat
Tuyet and Patricia, old roomates
View from VP Tower
Street food - steamed yams and peanuts
Last day in Asia - all packed and ready to return to France
