YE trip planning

Almost done with the planning except for the payment of our train tickets~

I’m so excited!

We’ll be staying in hut like this~

Single House like this~
and driving this car~

ISUZU MU-7 3.0L AUTO 4WD

going to places such as Orchid Farm, Butterfly Farm, Waterfalls, Elephant Camp, Hot Springs, Night Market, National Parks, Caves, Sunflower field...

Excited!

I decided to give the long neck village a miss after reading many review like the following:

(http://www.virtualtourist.com/)
"These villages are nothing more than human zoos contrived by primarily Thai business people to attract tourist dollars to their own pockets.Because tourists will pay money to tour operators to go to see a Padaung tribesperson, others got the bright idea that if they brought more of these people into Thailand, set up a faux-Padaung village of their own, they too could get a piece of the action.

Virtually no Padaung people have Thai citizenship and therefore have no rights in Thailand. Because they are in Thailand illegally, they are afraid seek help of the authorities when they are held against their will or wronged in other ways. They are completely at the whim of their 'zookeepers'.

Some think that their visit would have no impact on the Padaung and they are only observing them in their daily lives as if through a window. Wrong. The number of Padaung women that are forced to have body molding done on them has increased substantially because of tourism. Traditionally only women born on a full moon Wednesday had rings put around their necks. Now more of the girls are forced to have this done to them as more long necks draw more tourists to them. "