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Closer to Pai is a little Lisu village. The Lisu here have way more money than the Lisu at the mountains. You can see it if you look at the dresses. Apart from Jenna and me there where no tourists. And it is so close to Pai….
The flute is the same as in Lapilu – than they had a kind of Banjo as well.
Man on one side
All for the celebrations
Terry took some pix as well – here are a few – see the world through a different lens 
Granmother
One of the daughters
Me – enjoy a beer in the sun
At the old woman’s place
Having beer with the Shaman
GHTime Code(s): ncThe dancing went on and on and we got tired so Terry organized a nice big bedroom with a good mattress and some blankets – wow – much better than in my bungalow in Pai! We did sleep a while but than the whole village came to our place to do the dance – well nobody can sleep than!
After they left it was back to sleep again.
Early the other morning we did walk a bit around the village
We came to the house of an old lady who was sitting with her grandchild. she gave us chairs, tea and rice. Terry does not speak to many words Lisu but we managed somehow a conversation. 40 minutes later we wanted to leave – she was not happy as we did not eat to much. Great people!
Part of the village
Than we did pass the other Shaman’s place and he waved as in. Beer Chang with ice at 8.30 in the morning. Happy New Year!
The kitchen – in the yellow bags is the rice from their fields – has to last till the next harvest
As the Shaman performed a rebirth ritual we escaped to avoid more beer Chang
Back home people came the whole day and brought offerings to the house of the Shaman
Now Terry did perform his ritual on the Shaman – the man was relaxed and happy after it!
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Terry on his mule – full of treats for his friends in the mountains
Hmmmm pork
No power but of course a solar panel, tv and a dish
All washed and ready to party
Angry Bird?
Last sunset for this year – view towards Pai
The Shaman performs some ritual
The Shaman gives his blessings
After the Shaman finished the dance starts
They go from house to house and dance. Lots of fireworks and laughter. The owner of the house gives beer, whiskey and sodas as well as snacks and sweets to everybody and after a while the whole croud moves to the next house. This goes till the sun comes up and on for a week.
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Every time it is a different set of musicians so it gets never boring.
Shall put a few pix from the Lisu new year in Lapilu in a few days – if only a day had 48 hours up here in Pai…
Woke up early and do the computer thing in the bungalow. There is fireworks from all the mountains around since more than 2 hours now – the dragon is on its way!
Will drive with Terry to a remote hill tribe village far up in the mountains. Lapilu is a litte Lisu village on the mountain on the right of the picture, has a school and a Thai army post. I am really looking forward to the next 2 days out there.
What a fantastic day – today. Went to bed at 3 in the morning and had a really fun night. Got up at 9 – well that is not really nice. Breakfast and some internet. Than i wanted to visit Chris – like last time he wanted to come to my place and we did meet in the middle. He was on the way to give back the motorbike so we went back to my place and took the gasoline. I can use this to go to Lapilu for the Lisu New Year. Than quick to Aya to return the bike. The plan was to go to his place and say Hi to the girl. Ha! It took us over one hour to get to the bridge. 1st stop at Num and Weo to get the bicycle. Than we die meet the swiss guy before the 1st corner. At Good Live there was the rest of the crew – so talk to everybody for a few minutes. Than we walked 20 meters – the Catalans where coming – a few minutes later and a few meters later the German guy with the hat was coming. A few minutes later as we passed Yellow Sun Tee did sit there. Than we did meet Mike but he was in a hurry so that was fast.
Finally we managed to get to Shangri La. Went for a coffee with Lara. We did not find the Japanese place but another nice one. Had a nice chat with a guy from Canada over coffee.
On the way to the road we did meet the old Italian – ok lets have a papaya salad. Than i took off to visit Mike in his house. There was the nice French girl that sings so well. We had coffee, bread with salted butter and guacamole.
Than she even gave me a lift home – what do you want more??
Soon the crew will meet at the Happy Table and the TGIF evening will start!
Eli and Ivan – they did not come to SE Asia for 2 winters but now they are back. Allways a pleasure to meet them
Coffee with a smile – Thailand!
Off to AYA Service to get a bike
More than 700 bends to Pai – a lot of Thai can not handle that
Fuck – i did manage to pick the only day when it rained. And i do not talk drizzle – i talk heaven opened the gates kind of water from the sky. Of course i was soaked after a few minutes.
What a nice way to bring your dogs with you on a trip
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