Thursday, May 17, 2007

Mae Hong Son

Now after 2 days in Pai I had started to have enough. Losing my phone somewhere along the way I thought it was time to move on. Mae Hong Son was the next place on my list. Marie had decided to tagg along. So we packed up and headed to the bus station. Yet another little government bus.


Arriving in Mae Hong Son it was late afternoon so we booked into a guesthouse and had a nap. Went out and found a nice little pizza place was my first western food for a while, sooo good. Then it was off to my local, crossroads. Was a cool place which played uncle bob and some nice rock.



The next day I got another bike and we blasted up to the fish cave where there are huge karp which lurk around this little cave. Quite cool and you can feed the fish...not that they need feeding.



After the fish cave it was up to the waterfall. Unfortunatly there was not much water and it was a bit of an anticlimax still I could see the potential with a little imagination.



Then it was a 35km trip up to the northern most village of Mae Aw which sits directly north from mae hong son bordering Burma. We had some Tea and noodles and then headed back....now in the ciccanes there was a ute looming.....and on the hairpin it came onto my side and almost blew my lights out. However he shifted over gave me a little room and we had a mild crash with a few scrapes. Luckily it was a low speed slide (veteran now huh guys) anyway the driver stopped picked us up and appologised repeatedly. A little shaken we headed to a resort for a spa and a soak.





The next day we got up early and hiked up the hill to the temple which overlooked mae hong son.



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