Mae Sot township, Tak province, Thailand - July 3-5, 2014 - Having acquired a Burmese visa in Bangkok, we travelled up to the town of Mae Sot as a stop off on the way to doing a border crossing into Myanmar - one which we would prove to bungle for one reason or another, and would send us scarpering back to Bangkok to catch a flight in our uncertainty of whether Cambodians could get vis-exempt entry over land crossing or was it only at airports and it was the weekend so there was no one we could possibly call to find out, the Internet had no solid information whatsoever, and Neng's bank card wasn't working, blah blah blah you get the idea. Anyway Mae Sot was nice. All we did there was rent a motorcycle and drive through the hills and rice fields for a couple of days.
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| The legendary and mysterious Kickapoo. Only to be found in remote Thai villages. |
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| The Mae Kasa hot springs. The are currently under renovation, channeling five steams of volcanic water into a kind of park. |
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| The springs are very hot. The only purpose for them at the moment is to soft-boil eggs. |
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| Oops. |
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| A snake had perished in the boiling, mineral-rich waters. |
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| This is what happens when you accidentally smash an egg into their egg borling basin. |
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| The final, less-than-culinarily-satisfactory result. |
See the rest of the our Cambodia/Thailand/Burma/Laos trip:
Episode 1: Pailin, Cambodia
Episode 2: Bangkok, Thailand
Episode 4: Yangon, Myanmar
Episode 5: Bagan, Myanmar
Episode 6: Mandalay, Myanmar
Episode 7: Vientiane and Vang Vieng, Laos
Coda: Sihanoukville, Cambodia
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