We headed to Nu Poe camp today to help and teach at a refugee camp and village. We have teamed up with a couple others from the Christian Outreach Center (our church) and set out on a very, very long journey. The drive is about 11hrs from Chiang Mai and the terrain is probably the wildest, bumpiest, windiest, motion sickening & slowest that we've ever been on. In addition, we are in the middle of "wet season" here in Thailand, so there are rivers of water flowing down formerly paved roads. They have created such deep ruts on one stretch the driver had to constantly swerve from one side of the road to another, whilst still managing to hit many ruts along the way! At the end of one 70mile stretch, there is sign reporting 1,219 curves in the road as it follows the contours of the mountainside! I would believe it as we could only travel between 12-18MPH!
Even though it was the wildest ride we have ever experienced, it was quite possibly one of the most scenic and beautiful with breath-taking views of the untouched mountainous jungle and small Thai villages.
After an arduous 11hr trip, we finally we arrived around 8pm, Anders completely dead asleep from the Benedryl, he had to take for the motion sickness, made him too drowsy to stay awake! It was funny to watch him bump all over the back of the pickup truck while never waking.
They had been so kind as to round up bedding from all around the village to make beds beds for us on the bamboo floor complete with mosquito nets! As there is no electricity in the village, we found our way around by candlelight!
Many pictures to follow...in about 12 hours.
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