An ad in Pai lured us to a small village near Soppong, about an hour and a half from Pai. Albert, an eccentric expat American, married a Lisu woman and offered a home stay program in her village, where he now lived. The Lisu people are a semi-nomadic people originally from eastern Tibet. They have been around for thousands of years, gradually making their way down to Thailand, Laos, and Burma. Compared to other ethnic groups, they remain largely as they were many years ago. Wow, you really should see these buses the locals use for means of transportation. They've gotta be 40 years old. The gages are simply decorations, well past their working years, and the seats were obviously not intended for Western sizes. Leg room shmeg room. So this is a great way to
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