This is our second full day in Mae Hong Song, which is in the northwest near Myranmar (aka Burma), at the Fern Lodge, which is lovely. This is a park-like area. Today we went for an hour-long elephant ride and then an hour-an-a-half long-tail boat ride on the Pai River up to the border station near Burma. Long-tail boats are common in Southeast Asia. They are usually a long canoe-type boat with an inboard automotive engine with a long drive shaft (long-tail). We will have more trips on long-tail boats.
Tomorrow we will go to a Yunnan village called Ban Rak Thai, or Love Thailand. It has this name because the Yunnan Chinese refugees from the revolution were welcomed to Thailand and made citizens after traveling through Burma. They grow tea here.
On the Go with John and Jessie 