The Chiang Mai 500
When the light changes it's best to be out of the way!
A visit to a Hmong village
We were very privileged to be taken to a Hmong village one Saturday, by a Wycliffe member who had grown up there. It was about 1.5 hours from Chiang Mai, up some very winding and steep roads. Chiang Mai is at an altitude of 310 m. The village is at 1100 m - just a bit higher than Calgary. There is a larger town about 5 km down the valley. The land is very steep where the village is located, and most buildings have one side held up by pillars. Houses have electricity and water. The water is piped from a stream up the mountain to a set of tanks, from where it is distributed to the houses. There's a good cell signal in the village. The village has a restaurant and a couple of small stores, and what looked like a government building with flags outside. There is also a church. The land around the village is all farmed. There are a lot of terraced fields for vegetables, and groves of fruit trees. Here are a couple of shots of the village. In t...
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