From home to Chiang Mai. My journeys through Northern and Central Thailand were part vacation and part fact finding mission on the region where my son is involved in missionary work with the Karen Hilltribe refugees from Burma. My son had asked me many times if I would come over to Thailand and join him for a couple of weeks.

From Chiang Mai to Huay Malai. My journeys through Northern and Central Thailand were part vacation and part fact finding mission on the region where my son is involved in missionary work with the Karen Hilltribe refugees from Burma. Click on any image to enlarge. After smelling something particularly foul, I turned around to photograph my son when he got to it. Instead I got this group.

In the meantime, the logging and mining rights within the ethnic areas are sold to unscrupulous corporations which will leave behind only desolation.