Pai in the sky

Hi all

Two days to cover today as we were stranded in Sappong last night as the buses were all full!!

 Yesterday we had part two of our hill tribe tour and we started with a trip to a fish cave to see some allegedly revered night carp which only live in fresh spring water and all cluster together under a huge outcrop and look just like a cave full of fish ( if you like that sort of thing!). The whole place had been flooded 10 days earlier so we have been pretty lucky as they had managed to get everything back in order. Even the termites were moving back in!!

We then drove through some amazing countryside to Sappong where we visited the Brown Lahu tribe . Of course I ended up at the school and the children were just having their lunch so the teacher invited us in to join them - they were so cute ... as you can see below. 

                                They even managed to find a chink in Deans normally child free existence and these two girls had loads of fun playing volleyball with him until the boys took the ball to play football LOL Typical!!

 

We then carried on around the village and met some lovely people who all wanted us to take their photo and show them the LCD view. The embarrassing thing was they they were all so short compared to us which is a feat in itself. We then visited a local cave called Tham Lot which is over 1km long, but as its wet season we were only able to go in the first third of the system. Finally we went to visit another local tribe the Lisu, but the heavens opened and we didn't really get change to take many photos. Back in Sappong we were supposed to get a bus to Pai, but they were all full so we stayed at a fabulous guest house called the Sappong River Inn which you've guessed it, its right on the river. We had the best meal so far with local shan meatballs to start with. Then I had the most amazing local dish of chicken & lemongrass with spices and herbs. Dean had an extremely hot Penang curry which I couldn't eat but he loved. We then collapsed in bed and watched a DVD. This morning we travelled to Pai by minibus which only took 55 mins despite the timetabled arrival time of 1 hour 20 mins which probably explains why I felt so queasy with all the winding mountain roads we took. However the views were amazing and definitely the way to travel in this part of the world.  Pai is a bit of a hippy enclave and is pretty chilled out so we will be resting here for a couple of days before travelling to Laos.

So off to the bar now to watch Chelsea v Man C - Did I really just say that........... well have some Chang anyway.

Catch you later

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara