Meditation in a mountainous monastary and living with the Lisu Hilltribe
March 1st 2008 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. Com
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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 
