There was a massive street party on the Saturday night, which we accidently found. The population is said to be around 40,000 people and we think there were around 20,000 thai with minimal tourists at the event. Dancing (mums sort of dancing!) around maypoles which looked like a typical Saturday night disco. Many food stalls including cooked grasshoppers on the spot-we weren’t at the stage of tasting these yet! But we did see a small child beg her mother for a cup full-we thought she won lotto when her mother gave in, haven’t seen someone so excited to eat bugs!!
Massive cool clock tower that lights up at night to go with regular fireworks and thousands of lanterns being released.
The Tom Karen tour (trek through villages) was amazing, and introduced us to our new adopted family in Tristan and Adrienne (Sydney). The trek begun with a leisurely boat ride up stream, to then meet elephants which we rode for a good half an hr. Not sure who smelt worse, Katie or the regular farting of the elephant! We then had lunch only to be interrupted by a huge storm. In this time Tom Karen introduced us to a delicacy of bamboo worms and rice whisky! After questioning Tom Karen about the food, he told us “we eat everything that flies except aeroplane”!
We trekked through Akha and Lahu villages before staying with Akha village for tea. We had a massive night cooking traditional foods, drinking plenty of Chang and talking in 3 different languages! Tom was translating these 3 languages for us and the hosts, especially with Jayden’s motor mouth and never ending card trick!
Visited the Golden Triangle which is where the 3 countries (Thailand, Burma and Laos) all meet at one point. It was quite an experience.
The long neck (rip off) tour was very disappointing, especially when they have had the rings on since they are 3 and Katie’s neck was longer than most! We visited the school in the village which was probably the highlight and Jayden gave them some Baranduda teaching tips. We were also disappointed that we chose this instead of the white temple which we later saw was so amazing.
We also visited the most trippy bar I’ve seen yet the TeePee bar which included scream masks, a noose in the toilet and would have been no bigger than a sauna.
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