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Ban Thaton |
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For Week Without Walls 2000, I went to Ban Thaton, a small northern village in Thailand, just off the Thai-Burmese border. We visited hilltribes and schools, went on a 2-hour elephant trek, floated down the Mae Kok River for 2 hours, stayed in a hut in the jungle, and had the BEST thai food ever. :] The Aka hilltribe people grow Opium. I hear that's their main source of income(?). Well, they were also trying to sell us handmade jewelry and purses etc. |
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We visited some of the village schools . To the right is a picture of me and some of the children. Below are children waiting outside the classroom, and to the bottom right is a one-classroom school at another village. At this last school, there was a girl of about 7-years-old carrying her naked baby brother to class. Her parents were off in the fields. The classroom consisted of children of all ages. |
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There was this one time we were all floating down the river. It started to pour and it just rained for about two hours. Our boat was made of bamboo I think, so the view was great! Once the rain cleared up, there was a beautiful rainbow coming up from the river. Imagine that you're floating down a river with green hills on both sides. It was beautiful~! |
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Ban Thaton was the prettiest part of Thailand that I have seen. I got to spend a week, during ISB's Week Without Walls, with 5 Thai girls and 6 other Japanese girls. We all became friends by the end of the trip, of course. :] |
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