Animal Sightings

Animals are very important to the hill tribes. The wealth of a village is judged by the number and health of its animals. A bride's dowry consists of pigs and chickens. When eaten, none of the animal is wasted. Most animals run free, but the villagers seem to know who belongs where. In Karen villages, elephants have been trained to work. At an elephant farm, we saw a baby elephant less than eight hours after it had been born. Luckily, we only saw two snakes the entire mission.

These lucky elephants gave Christine a much needed lift.

The houses in the village were all on stilts. The area below the house is where the animals lived and ate. These ducks have their wings clipped to keep them from leaving.

Water buffalo are rarely seen in the village. This one stayed just outside of town and worked the village rice paddies. The children tie strings to large bugs like the one below and let them fly like kites for amusement.

The pigs were cute as little piggies. The large ones were fun to chase. We had pork more than once but it was not from anyone we got to know.

Riding an elephant is not as much fun as it sounds. Glad I never ran off and joined the circus.

Who do you think won this standoff?

 

There were over 150 chickens at the hostel in Chiangrai. Eggs from these chickens help feed the kids staying in the hostel.

Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away!

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Plane trip   Patpong - Rahab Ministry   Golden Triangle Resort   Rimkok Resort

Buddhist Temples    Boat Trip to Village    Kok-noi Ban Klang Village

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