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Mae Hong Son
Mae
Hong Son is an idyllic province town at the border to Burma and is situated in
the midst of beautiful, original, wooded landscape. Until a few years ago still
the city lay in a peaceful deep sleep. With the building of an asphalted road
came the end of the isolation. About half of the inhabitants in this region are
members of the hill tribes, the other half are Shan people. We reached Mae Hong
Son in a 9 hours, interesting drive from Chiang Mai.
In
the northwestern corner of Thailand is the Buddhism
the
main religion here, too. In contrast to the other parts in Thailand you don’t
see so much monks and not so much offering people, but you feel everywhere the
deep religion. Also the architectural style of the Wats (monastery) here is
quiet different, and remain more the Burmese as the Thai style. By strolling to
the town we heard from a big ceremony (harvest festival) at the afternoon. Of
course we were very glad about this event, because it was the really
indescribable, colourful celebration, we had ever seen.
On
our trip to Mae Hong Son we visited the Tham Lod stalactite cavern, an
enormous nature experience. With Guide and gas lamp we explored the greatly
caves. The trip with the bamboo raft on the underground river was more than
impressing.
From
a near Elephant camp we rode on the swinging back of an old, big elephant to one
of the surrounding mountain villages.
The
tourist attraction at all, here are the long necked women. We could not resist
visiting the village of these women, although we knew about the problem of their
life circumstances.
All
in all we spent here, very wonderful, eventfully and calm days. A trip to Mae
Hong Son we can recommend every Thailand traveller.
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