Back to Homepage Back to Travel Photos	Thailand – January 1999
At the Grand Palace in Bankok
Inside the Grand Palace
Chiang Mai
At a sit down Khan Toke dinner in Chiang Mai (in Northern Thailand) where they had traditional Thai dancing as we ate.
From Chiang Mai we hiked for 3 days up into the mountains and stayed with different hill tribes called the Karen. We slept on straw mats in their huts.
Here is woman crushing wheat kernels.
Here are some Karen children holding the pencils and paper we brought them for their schoolwork.
Some of our group joined the villagers for a game where they hit a rattan ball back and forth over a net without using their hands.
Our hiking group
On the third day after trekking, we were taken down a river on bamboo rafts led by Thai guides
After rafting, our trekking group went for an elephant ride
After northern Thailand, my friends and I flew down to the southern islands and stayed on Koh Pha-ngan for about a week.
Koh Pha-ngan Island. I stayed in the bungalow in the background which cost 100 baht per night (or $2.80 U.S.).