December 9, 2005 - Adventure
A wise person once said, “Adventure is where you want to be when you are sitting in a lounge chair. And, when you are in it, you’d rather be back in the lounge chair.”
We walked out of the forests of Chiang Dao yesterday after having walked up and down countless hills. I’d feel proud of myself for surviving the trek if our guide didn’t pull out a wok, ingredients for a 3 course meal, and a huge bag of cooked rice in the middle of the stroll. With some wood and dinnerware fashioned from bamboo that was lying around, Sam, with the help of the apprentice-guide, prepared the most amazing meal for us.
Along the way, we visited a few more Lisu and Karen villages where life is simple…but definitely not easy. Again, I would be proud of myself for surviving these “primitive” conditions, if our hosts didn’t live and prosper in these conditions their entire lives. I would say, the trek through the lands of the hill tribes was an amazing experience…there were lessons of humility around every turn of the trail.
When we arrived back at the Chiang Dao Nest Mini-Resort, we washed ourselves clean and crawled into warm beds, but not before an all-you-can-eat barbeque dinner prepared for us at the Nest restaurant. The food was wonderful and plentiful. The people of the Chiang Dao’s mountains showed me that one can survive adversity and live in happiness in difficult conditions. I would say that there is purity in this existence, one that I would emulate, if I was a stronger person.
We walked out of the forests of Chiang Dao yesterday after having walked up and down countless hills. I’d feel proud of myself for surviving the trek if our guide didn’t pull out a wok, ingredients for a 3 course meal, and a huge bag of cooked rice in the middle of the stroll. With some wood and dinnerware fashioned from bamboo that was lying around, Sam, with the help of the apprentice-guide, prepared the most amazing meal for us.
Along the way, we visited a few more Lisu and Karen villages where life is simple…but definitely not easy. Again, I would be proud of myself for surviving these “primitive” conditions, if our hosts didn’t live and prosper in these conditions their entire lives. I would say, the trek through the lands of the hill tribes was an amazing experience…there were lessons of humility around every turn of the trail.
When we arrived back at the Chiang Dao Nest Mini-Resort, we washed ourselves clean and crawled into warm beds, but not before an all-you-can-eat barbeque dinner prepared for us at the Nest restaurant. The food was wonderful and plentiful. The people of the Chiang Dao’s mountains showed me that one can survive adversity and live in happiness in difficult conditions. I would say that there is purity in this existence, one that I would emulate, if I was a stronger person.
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