I came back this evening from another day in the mountains. I left this morning with the third load of pipes for Hui Ba Rai. Stefan and Anusha from Chiang Mai came along on this trip. With the water project there was one last hill to overcome and I was not sure if we will be able to get over it. After looking for alternative routes. We decided to dig as dip as we had to. Luckily we were able to get right over the hill. Here the view I enjoyed from up in the mountains. It is beautiful up there. The smoke coming from the little tin roof is our lunch being cooked by one of the Lahu women.
While we were digging officials from the Forest department came up. The were armed with automatic rifles to check on what we were doing. I wonder how they knew we were up there at all. It is not the first time meet officials from the Forest department. They are looking for illegal logging and also drug trafficking. I had a good chat with the chief and as they saw that everything was okay they left again.
We drove back to Chiang Mai over Prao to visit the boarding home with we support. There are currently 74 children from 11 remote mountain villages. My heart is always moved with compassion when I’m there and wish we could do more for those children. But there is always so much we can do to help.
hey, da denkt man nicht’s böses und plötzlich stehen einem da leute mit knarren gegenüber! ups! auf der anderen seite ist es doch auch beruhigend zu wissen dass wo auf der offiziellen seite jemand nicht gegen einen ist! in die hände spucken und irgendwo anfangen!