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- A couple of kilometers out of Mae Sot to the north,

the road begins to climb and to wind. The mountain jungle is slowly closing in linked with thinly flowering creepers. Over hills and through valleys with abundant vegetation, filled with the odor of the jungle.
 
The road became steeper, up the hill-sides, or down on them. In the forests along the road bird-life became visible. Small birds, bigger ones and maybe some vulture –due to the distance it was not clearly visible- wheeled in the sky, shrill, bird-like whistling came out from the bush, maybe made by colonies of squirrels.

A stop in one of the small villages lining the road to take some lunch. In the dim interior of the small, open restaurant -a model of most remote oriental eating-houses -we were awaited by the owner and cook who was naked to the waist.

Tattooed dragons writhed among the cabalistic figures on his chest and arms. A snippet of intestine was clinging to a finger, which, shaken off, was caught in mid-air by an attendant cat. I pointed to some chickens’ limbs swimming in red curry and also ordered some rice. A few minutes later I was neatly stripping the meat from those saffron bones. Some pickled cabbage, with garlic and chili-pepper was served.. It had a sharp, sour flavor, for which a taste was easily acquired. Crossing small rivers, from time to time bright red earth plunging down the hill-side into deep, green water, it’s a feast for the eyes, we slowly drive into the valley where the Mae Hong Son City is.
Mae Hong Son is a good hub to explore this part of the "Golden Triangle" as the area is called.  Mae Hong Son hotels offer the comfort you need when you go on some hiking, trekking or other outdoor activities.

There are interesting hill tribe villages from Shan, Lahu, Lisu, Karen, Akha people and other, actually this are the same as Myanmar people on the other side of the border Myanmar Thailand border.

Near Mae Hong Son is a Kayan or Padaung village, with the famous “Long Neck Women”. The Kayan - Padaung came to Thailand during the refuge flood some years ago 

Mae Hong Son Padaung or Kayan from Myanmar Burma

from the western parts of Kayah State in Myanmar, south of Inle Lake. Most Kayan or Padaung women wear brass rings around their necks, arms and legs. The legend is, Kayan Padaung wear this brass rings to remind them of their ancestry to the nagas (mythical dragon / snake). They fled Myanmar a few years ago because of the continuous fighting between Myanmar government troops and rebel groups at that time, actually the fighting has calmed down.

Great outdoors are around Soppong on the road from Mae Hong Son to Pai and Chiang Mai, its real great see Soppong.

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