Advertisement
« previous next »
View down Mae Hong Son's main street  
   

View down Mae Hong Son's main street

This is the view south down our biggest street, looking down toward the post office. If you turn left at the post office, you are in the night market and the lake. If you turn right, you are at my new house.
Chapter...three? Moving to Thailand

March 20th 2009
So after a tough debate with myself over whether to take a human rights officer post with the UN peacekeeping mission in Cote d’Ivoire (which, after Senegal, I knew I would love), or an associate resettlement officer job in northern Thailand with UNHCR…you all know where I ended up. Having worked previously in Africa, I was eager to gain experience in a new cultural context like Asia. Also m ... read more
Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

Thai Flag 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
Advertisement
Tot: 0.162s; Tpl: 0.003s; cc: 16; qc: 96; dbt: 0.0868s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.3mb