Advantages: Unforgettable experience Disadvantages: Don't do it in the rainy season
I went on a trek in the North of Thailand just outside the Golden triangle. Far away from the fake Levi's and the neon we headed into the jungle. Myself and a lunatic from Belfast who i'd met that morning in the pick-up truck. We spent the first day walking up and down muddy hills following a bloke in bare feet carrying 184 eggs in those cardboard thingy's. Man i could hardly stay on my feet but all day he never dropped 1 flippin egg. All that day ... ...that he had a treat for us that night and to keep going. Well, we finally stopped walking about sunset in a village inhabited by the Karen peopleand had a wash in a stream and settled down for some food. These people who live in this remote place need to be seen. They are so amazing, living on the side of a hill in the middle of the jungle with few comforts. For years, all around this part of the world the cash crop has been Opium. Everybody is at ...
starbank 07.03.2005
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