This morning was pretty standard (including the roosers at 4am which seem to be following me), I got up after my first night at the Lisu house, took a doxycycline for malaria and went to eat a breakfast of pineapple and papaya, enough to feed a small army. After breakfast, we set off to someone else's house in the village, and all piled into the back of their pickup truck to go to the fields, in the mountains above. I was sitting between a small engine and a buc...

I stayed with a family in a little village up in the mountains above Soppong for two nights. It was pretty cool and definitely and experience! The family is part of a hill tribe called the Lisu people. They are one of many very old tribes in northern Thailand, and they migrated from Tibet a few hundred years ago. The village I stayed in is called Nong Tong and is entirely Lisu people. They have their own language, very distinct culture and wear very colorful cl...