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Mae Hong Son is located a further 3 hours mini van ride from Pai, accordingly we arrived after our departure in Pai at 18:00 until sunset (since we are so close to the equator, it is in fact already dark at about 18: 30 ). As Mae Hong Son is so small and relatively untouristy, there were not even tuk-tuks, which is why we had to walk from the bus station to our AirBnB. After 3 hours on the bus this 1.5 km walk did relatively well 🙂
The next morning we followed then the same plan that had worked so well in Pai. Rent a scooter and out of the city. But that turned out to be harder than expected, since there is apparently only one scooter hire which will be found first. But after a little ask around (ask in this case means more hands, feet and Google translate) we browsed on the rental and were able to make our way to the Mae Surin National Park. Unfortunately we were here for the first time to feel the disadvantages of the rainy season, because the road to the main attraction – the “Mae Surin Waterfall” – was unfortunately blocked. But we had chosen two other waterfalls that we wanted to see: the Pha Bong and Pha Suea. The drive to the first turned out to be harder than we thought, because due to the rainy season the road was flooded about 10-20 cm. First, we wanted to turn back on, but then a nice Thai, who instructed us just came with a bit of momentum to drive through. Full uneasy us was not, however, done specifically and actually we came through unscathed. Only about 100m to be later before the next flooding, but hesitate for a bit and test the depth we tried it simply again, and lo and behold here we came through. But all good things come now times three and so we faced the greatest flooding 200m later. The then had us no longer feel uneasy, so we abstellten the scooter and handled the last 400m walk. The waterfall itself was rather unspectacular but in this case probably counts the motto: “The journey is the destination” 🙂
The Pha Suea Waterfall was then already clearly fantastic, mainly because there was marked by a dreamlike picturesque landscape of rice paddies and jungle already the ride. The lady from the scooter rental had us though because of the rain forbidden to drive on the steep hill with the little 110cc scooters, but we tried fortunately anyway, because as it turned out she had grossly exaggerated. On the way back then we made a few stops in the rice fields, highlight here was the “Bamboo Bridge” with attached temple. In addition, we also visited sunset the temple on the mountain in Mae Hong Son.
Oh, actually we wanted one of the two villages with living here visit “long-necked women”. A tour runs well in generally as follows: an entrance ticket 5 € You buy (mind you, entering for entering a village !!!) and stroll through a market in which the women sell the usual junk for tourists. By the way, you can then shoot selfies with the women. Having read the reviews and some, we had the label “human zoo” pretty fit before, so we were deterred from visiting …
The next morning, we went with a 20 € -Flight in propeller plane back to Chiang Mai, but what we experienced there is the next entry 🙂