Pat's Photo Gallery

Thailand - February 2005
Part Five of Ten

Jumping shrimp
Pat eating jumping shrimp dish. It was hard to keep the shrimp on the spoon.
Fellow tour member Jerrie looks rather skeptical, doesn't she?
Needless to say, she didn't try the jumping shrimp dish, but Dick behind me did.

  Hill country
Hill country - northern Thailand in Golden Triangle area - where Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos meet
An area historically associated with opium production

Cooking area
Cooking area inside a home at a hill country village - Yao tribe

Ahka village
Akha tribe village in the hill country in northern Thailand near Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle area,
where Myanmar (formerly Burma), Laos, and Thailand come together

Akha grandmother
Akha woman with teeth stained by beetle juice

Releasing balloon
At Golden Pine Resort - Chiang Rai
Setting off hot air balloons (do this for celebrations like New Year's

Mae Sei woman
In the town of Mae Sei, the northernmost town in Thailand at the border with Myanmar

Myanmar
Crossing the bridge over the Sai River to enter Tachilek, Myanmar. Myanmar is run by one of the most
brutal dictatorships in the world. We had to be careful what we photographed. Not allowed to photograph
government buildings, for example

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