Kelly Talk Thai: Doi Khuntan

After helping at an English Camp over the weekend and working 12 DAYS IN A ROW (uuugh!!) we decided to head north a bit to Doi Khuntan. We left Saturday morning. . .which turned into late Saturday afternoon due to the 4 hour train delay. Luckily we were able to entertain ourselves with a few beers and card games at the station.

Once we arrived in Doi Khuntan we had lunch and barreled ourselves up the mountain to the national park. Lauren and Tim used their broken Thai in combination with the staff's broken English to reserve a cabin for the night. Next thing we know we're cruising even further up the mountain in the back of a pickup truck only to arrive at a gorgeous cabin with an insane view. We hung out there for the rest of the day, enjoyed a campfire that night and got up the next morning to hike to a waterfall. We hiked uphill for about an hour and a half. . .and we never actually found the waterfall (all the signs were in Thai and no one could really agree on which way to go). . .but it was still really pretty.

The train was delayed on the way back also so we waited about 6 hours (literally) at the train station in Khuntan. The town has two little shack restaurants along the train tracks so the owners were thrilled that we ended up having lunch AND dinner there. Other than that, there's about 10 or 15 houses perched on the hillsides so we watched a "neighborhood" soccer game for awhile and saw some sort of celebration with tons of food and music (not sure if it was a normal Sunday night occurance or some sort of special occasion). Even though the wait was loooong, we kept ourselves entertained and managed to finally make it back by about 10 that night.

We decided next time we'll find different transportation but we definitely want to head back to the park for more hiking and cabining. I'd go again for the view alone. It made for a great weekend after such a long work week. And to top it off we had our friend Molly from home with us!!!

Waiting at the train station in Lampang