This afternoon we received news that the other 4 cars are unloaded and are now on the way north to catch up with us tomorrow night in Luang Namtha in Laos.
Today has been a short drive to spend the night beside the Mekong River that forms the Thai-Laos border in this area. As it’s the wet season the river is running full, fast and a Red Brown colour with thousands on tonnes of slit from all the farms and hills in the area upstream.
We left Chiang Rai latish as we only had 160ks driving after doing some bloging and a bit of tinkering on Penny. Our first stop was a local market to check the shopping habits of the Thai people. the market had everything in local fruit and meat including plenty of live fish. In the last couple of days we have seen a lot of signs to caves so today we visited a cave site to only go about 10 metres inside. Caves are used as houses by the local monkey family so we left and moved on to Mae Sai for lunch on the Mekong river upstream from our crossing point Tomorrow.
While lunching in Mae Sai it started to rain, the funniest site around is people riding their scooters with umbrellas up. We moseyed on from lunch to stop and watch some men harvesting rice plants for transfer to another paddy, before the last stop for the day at the Opium Museum which displayed the story of Opium from 5000 years ago up to now.
Don
Hi Max,
Don’t know whether you can get this message or not.
I have been following your progress since you left BKK.
This morning, I saw you stopped at the turn for the road to the bridge into Laos.
The map from your transponder seems to show the bridge under construction.
I don’t know which is more up-to-date, but Google Earth shows a beautiful bridge.
If you can access this message from Penny while on the road, my advice is
to keep going toward the river and check out the bridge.
Good luck.
Don