Village Visit.

Our guide picked us up about 2 for a walking visit to a couple of the local villages. We are half way up the mountain and the villages are down in the valley. It’s an incredibly steep road down to the valley but they all run up and down it several times a day on motorbikes or cars.

There are rice fields all along the road on the way down so it’s a very pretty walk and luckily there is a bit of shade here and there, but it is incredibly hot.

We stopped about halfway down for a drink at a local juice bar. I was just about to say I’m not walking any further down if we have to climb all this way back up when Tim said we have a car waiting at the bottom. Thank goodness because the road incredibly got even steeper.

We visited a local weaver, a family renovating under their house, a local man cleaning out his fish pond for some topsoil for his veggies and the ethnic village of Lung Niem where there all lots of traditional weavers and Stilt houses.

So glad there was a driver waiting for us. We passed a group of young things walking back up. I did feel bad but there were way too many to offer a lift to.

Cocktails and dinner on the verandah was lovely.Read more