Sunday Hiking

Together with some of my Burmese friends. we hiked and explored some of the hills surrounding Mae Sot, Thailand. This border city has a lot of hills which are very suitable for hiking.

Weather wise, the cool and breezy December was a big plus in our adventure cum exploration of the hilly side of this border town.

Even the locals here are incredulously surprised about the current weather with the mercury going down to 9 degrees Centigrade in the morning.

But as I said, the weather is very suitable for hiking. And for someone who came from a "real" tropical country, the real surprise was cold weathers could also be humid. Or maybe we were just too high above sea level that oxygen is thin?

Below are some of the photos I took while hiking. The views from the hills are incredible. Some are even heart-stopping. Enjoy.

Mae Sot Burmese Monastery

I took these photos inside a Burmese temple in Mae Sot, Tak Province in Thailand. Mae Sot is a border city between Burma and Thailand. The two countries share a very long border line.

If you will study the Burma-Thailand history, you will see that Mae Sot was occupied by Burma in the olden times and this is the reason why there are Burmese monasteries in the city.

Routine routes at Mae Sot

I usually use the routes in these photos going from my place to the school where I teach here at Mae Sot, Thailand.  I never get tired negotiating these rolling, bumpy, potholed roads on board my trusty second-hand bicycle which I named "Isko". These routes are longer to negotiate compared to two other roads to reach the campus. But these roads have fantastic views and eerily ambient. Most of the times I am alone in these tranquil trails, the peaceful ambience of which is disturbed by the melody of chirping birds and breeze which softly caress the trees, leaves and grasses punctuated by my loud singing of whatever is playing in my MP3 device.