We’re just back from two amazing spots in Northern Thailand: Huay Cha Ka which is a King’s Royal Project and Lisu village, and 
Doi Mae Salong @ 1,800 meters above sea level where the finest oolong teas in the country are grown, another royal project that was established in the seventies to replace opium crops with tea…
The whole family piled in the truck: Aloma, Cha and myself at the wheel. The objective was to take a small vacation to one of my favorite places in the North of Thailand: Doi Mae Salong, and purchase some teas to stock my inventory (The new batch is available! contact me for shipment options) and to check out the Lisu village silver smiths to see what kind of creative juices they got going, and if anything was worth purchasing. Here are some shots from our travels….Peace.
First Burma, now China. What next? Reports are in that there are plenty of ‘freak storms’ popping up in North America now too. Mother Earth is definitely taking control of the situation. Population wise, as a whole we are being leveled out by the Mother herself, she will make all wrongs right.
What more will the Burmese be able to endure in 2008? First the ‘bloody protests’ recently where monks and nuns were brutally murdered, and now the killer typhoon reaching estimated death toles up to 100,000 + people (and animals). Mother Earth is truly trying to tell us something, without sounding too typical I won’t try to decipher what the exact message is. The message is clear and simple: