Field workers, near Chiang Rai
At the start of the second trek, we walked around the starting point area for a couple of hours before setting off on the trek. These workers are planting garlic between rice harvests, they get paid 20baht a day for working in the fields, which works out about 30p. Life in Thailand is cheap, but it's not that cheap, a meal at a roadside stall will cost about 20baht. As lf life wasn't hard enough for them, I planted some of their garlic for them, they probably had to go back and redo it after I'd gone, i think I put them all in upside down.
A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more 
