Highland of Thailand
There was a section of the journey that we had to make by boarding a long -boat which took us down a fast moving river and later we continued cycling from a village down the path.
The long -boats are really a wooden large kayaks that have an small engine located at the end of a long stick which the boatman can easily raise as we approach rapids and big rocks in the river.
Along the way we passed some small villages where kids were jumping and swimming in the river.
We saw old ladies working in steep fields that hugged the mountains.
Water buffaloes taking refuge in the shallow water and small wooden villages where people still smile at strangers, never ask for money, beg or hassle.
We saw no poverty or real need, only proud people with a choice of a lifestyle to work the land and live closely to nature.
