lot more than Bangkok, It's very rural and tropical, the mountains are beautiful. We are staying at a wonderful resort. Yesterday we went to several hilltribe villages. Most of these towns have not seen a lot of tourists yet, they make most of the money they have from the few times they see them. We bought as much as we could, they all sell mostly the same things, little handicrafts and weaving. When we could, we bought from a Christian. We just felt like giving
them all the money we had, and if that would solve there problem of poverty we would but that would solve nothing.
The last village we visited was a mostly Christian village and they knew we were coming. In this village they had killed a pig (a months income) cooked it and held a feast for us. This would usually be done at weddings or other special occasions. It was humbling, after dinner they put on a prayer service. We sang a few songs for them and they sang and did traditional dances for us. We took a love offering for the village, there was so much money that there was a concern that it could cause problems for them if we gave it all to them. We gave them half and half to Luke and TuTu. We came to Thailand thinking we could do good or help them, but they were the ones blessing us! I was moved at how much they had sacrificed for us, would we sacrifice like that for them if they came to the US? I think not, Lord soften our hearts.
Beautiful Mountains in Chaing Mai
Picture of a home in the first village we visited.
Elephant at the first village. Look at his muddy legs. He was probably in the fields working.
Elephants are common in Thailand. Usually a village will own one and they share the elephant.
Picture
of the homes in the second village.
This is one of the women who cooked the dinner we had at the village. She is cooking over a fire on the ground. They have so little but gave so much.
This is a portion of the pig that they cooked for us.
Girls dancing at the prayer service after the dinner.
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