19 November, 2009

Cooking Dinner in Chiang Rai



Preparing the Thai omelette, known as Kai Geow.

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Cooking Dinner in Chiang Rai


Daow with the vegetable that will go into the Tom Yum.

Thai omelette with vegetables, a vegetable stir fry, and Tom Yum Fish - a Thai soup.

Tom Yum Fish.
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18 November, 2009

Queens Garden

We had decided to visit the Queens garden long before we actually flew to the north of Thailand, it is a wonderfully beautiful place. One interesting thing that we discovered on this trip, while we were with the Akha people, was that this land for the garden was taken from an elder Akha man's family and tribe! A real example of the difficulties the hill tribe people's face when interaction with Thai society.

The garden is gorgeous, I doubt these photos can capture even a small amount of the beauty. By the end of this walk....I was thoroughly tired of taking pictures, ha, so enjoy the good ones that are posted here.




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Queens Garden




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Queens Garden




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Queens Garden




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Queens Garden




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Queens Garden




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Queens Garden




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The Golden Triangle

Where Thailand, Burma, and Laos meet - famous for drug it's once very heavy drug trade.



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Akha kids

Jump!



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