chiangrai 2005 - snapshots

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• wandered into Wat Klang Wiang on our way to e Chiangrai municipal market
  
• silly super-manja tom kitten smashed its face into e insect screen trying to jump through our window @ Shin Sane Guesthouse, Mae Salong
  
• fried insect stall selling all sizes of super oily & sinful bamboo worms, beetles, locusts etc @ Phayao pasar malam
  
• Lahu weaving competition @ Ban Jalae, Mae Yao
  
• hills cleared for agriculture, Thoeng district, Phu Chi Fa
  
• Chiangrai bus station
  
• honeysuckle, Mae Salong
  
• Akha kids @ Ban Pha Kha Suk Jai preschool, along our 12+km Mae Salong-Ban Klang-Ban Heka trek
  
• sunrise over Laos, Phu Chi Fa
  

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• mess in Baan Bua Guesthouse after returning from whirlwind 'tour' of Krajokngao (Mirror Art Group), Ban Huay Khom school, Ban Jalae & Ban Apa, Mae Yao subdistrict
  
• Akha spirit gate, Ban Panasawan, along e Mae Salong-Ban Klang-Ban Heka trek
  
• Chiangrai night bazaar
  
• khanom bueang stall @ Phayao pasar malam
  
• cliff overlooking Laos, Phu Chi Fa
  
• Phayao-Chiangrai bus, Phayao bus station
  
• there was also BIRKENSTCCK but no BIRKENSTUCK nor BROKENSTUCK @ Phayao pasar malam
  
• Agong + family & Apa + son outside Agong's house, where we stayed in a year ago, Ban Apa
  
• Mae Salong as seen from path leading up to General Duan's tomb
  

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• longest bus tickets e length of my forearm, Chiangrai-Ban Rom Fa Thai bus
  
• Wat Klang Wiang, Chiangrai
  
• Phu Chi Fa
  
• renovation @ Wat Sri Khom Kham, Phayao
  
• gathering at noon after their last meal for e day @ Wat Yuan monastery, Chiang Kham
  
• kwan (lake) Phayao
  
• friend @ Shin Sane Guesthouse, Mae Salong
  
• dusk @ kwan Phayao
  
• sunrise @ Mae Salong
  
• lanterns by kwan Phayao
  
• mural @ Wat Sri Khom Kham, Phayao
  
• Akha girl from a Christianised village, Mae Salong school
  

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chiangrai 2005 itinerary