Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand

I just checked back the photos we took in Hill tribes of Northern Thailand, total madness...we were in a hurry, photos taken were all in very bad quality. I thought it would be fine after adjusting contrasts brightness white balance and everything, but apparently the results are still very disappointing. Please don't ask why these photos are blur or the colors are cartoon, fake, or whatever you call it, I tried my best. A lot of photos we took are only taken once, no second or third shots to let me choose.

Anyway, I really appreciate visit to the Hill Tribes (They call it Karen Village in short), I was touched and I felt really happy being there (well it doesn't mean I wanna live there tho, hehee). Kevin and I joined this tour package was because of the Hill tribes village, if it wasn't because of it, I don't think we were willing to spend 3000 baht for 2 persons (we didn't get better price as I mentioned in my previous entries).

Karen village is about 3 hours from Chiang Mai, after 3 hours of windy and bumpy roads, finally...we reached!






It's not hard to tell that I was very happy


Akha, Lahu and Long Neck Karen


She was the first tribe lady I saw that day, Molly said she is more than a hundred years old and even appeared in National Geography :)


I approached, wanted to take a photo with her...
Check her hands, she put my hand on her waist!


At first I was a little worried, because I wasn't sure if body contact with stranger which is ME is normal to them


But I guess she likes me, see? She smiled! :D
Her smile is very cute and she made my day


Hugzz


Random photos












Long neck, Akha and Lahu karen are very close to each other,
walking from Akha to Lahu and Long Neck karen...

Eeh, what is she doing?


About there..


"Come come come..."


More photos in Lahu and Long Neck karen














Hey I just realised I like to take photos with children :)
They don't wear low cut, won't steal the lime light...MUAHAHAHAHAHA




Kevin wanted to take photo with one of them, so I said
"Hey you don't sit too close, maybe her husband will come after you later" :P


LOL! Kevin sat too far :P

And...
This lady!
I think I saw her before, maybe in some magazines :)




:D


I bought some scarfs from her






Her baby is very adorable :D




This is their special necklace...4KG




Didn't spend long in Lahu and long neck karen, was in a hurry. It was around 7pm, by the time we reach Chiang Mai would be around 10pm, that was why Molly was rushing us


However, Molly was VERY willing to pose with me :P
Hahaha


Some photos before we leave this peaceful and wonderful karen..
















If time allowed, I would love to spend the whole day here, maybe for a night or two :)
I really wish to go there again...











-<3

Thai-Mynamar Border

After we had our lunch, we proceeded to the northern part of Thailand. Molly said

"You can do shopping here and use your money, after you finish using your money we will go to hill tribe village"

Hahahahaha

I don't have much money to spend, I worried she wouldn't take us to Karen Village, so I hide some money inside my...AHEM. She didn't know it

:P You know I'm kidding

Be aware, 

40 photos ahead ;)

On the way to Thai-Myanmar Border

Resting my legs on his laps

My legs were tired, because I was wearing heels all the way from Hot Spring to Wat Jadeeloung, from Wat Jadeeloung to Golden Triangle, from Golden Triangle to Laos, from Laos to Golden Triangle, from Golden Triangle to Myanmar Border...see, it was tiring. Don't ask why I wore heels, I didn't even bother to get a pair of sandals, thinking

"Should be fine, we are not going to climb from hill A to hill B right?"

-_-"

Yeah, we didn't have to...but it was still tiring

Hoohooo!

About to reach Thai-Myanmar Border

This temple has got Chinese characters written on it

Long live the king

Reaching...

Reached!

Me trying to steal the show :P

I call these,

Ding ding blink blink

Actually nothing much to see here, just some shoppings for foods, fruits, "ding ding blink blink" and some local goods

"The Northern Most of Thailand"

Do you remember I mentioned about a lovely couple from Germany?

Hehe! ^^

Alex and Karoline

And the girls from Taiwan! ^^

Myanmar :)

Molly and the guy from Israel :)

Violet and the Thai armies

I was a little worried, not sure if it's okay to take photos with them. However, Alex made the first move :D

To my surprise, Karoline, Alex and Xu Ying were from law faculty too, together with Kevin, 4 lawyers made a good companion. Alex even suggested to have a small international law conference or something like that (of course he was kidding). Hahaha :P

But, Sigh...where is my broom? I need to sweep the floor, I'm not in this group of people :(

Okay, back to the photos

HAHAHA

Soooo funny... :P

:P

Peek-a-boo

Tired and thirsty,

we found ourselves a local cafe

Nah...

actually we neither tired nor thirsty, in fact I wanted to pee so badly, it's impolite to go to people's place just to use their washroom without buying things from them.

"Where is your coffee where is your coffee?"

waiting impatiently, we only ordered a glass of coffee. Well, better than just pee and go. LOL :P

Some photos before we left Thai-Myanmar border

Hmmm...the international law conference, hehehe! I really like them, they are soooo nice ^^

Xu Ying and I

So sweet and friendly. Hope to see her again in the future :)

卢景富，徐莹 and me

This is my snacks :P

I bought it in 7-11.

There are a lot of 7-11 in Chiang Mai, every 10 to 15 shops you will see one 7-11 (my guest house area). 7-11 is making good business in Chiang Mai :)

Next station, Hill Tribe Village

Hehee, resting my legs on his laps, again :P

opps, over adjusting the contrast ;)

Bye for now, muacks :)

-<3