Mae Sot

I survived the border run (and I didn't even get a lousy t-shirt)! With that said, I am currently in Mae Sot, a Burmese-Chinese-Karen-Thai trading outpost on the border between Myanmar and Thailand.

Umm... I am actually spluring and staying in an "up-scale" guesthouse. Yeah, all 250 baht worth, baby! This may not be the Ritz (cough cough), but I am sleeping on a real bed tonight! I am stoked!!!

I am kinda embarrassed, but I actually gave you guys the wrong information about my guesthouse yesterday. I actually stayed at the Northwest Guesthouse, but I thought I was staying at Riverside. That's the life of a backpacker though. You are so tired from bouncing from one guesthouse to another that you often forget where you are. Sometimes, I even wake up and not realise where I am at the moment ("Vietnam? Burma? Thailand?")

I have made some initial contacts with some of the volunteer organisations here in the area and will be calling them to set up meetings once I finish this blog. Wish me luck guys.

In the meantime, here's contact info for my guesthouse.

Ban Thai Guest House
Room No. 5
Tel : 0 5553 1590
740 Th Intharakhiri
Mae Sot

Tomorrow, I plan to meet with some volunteer orgs and hopefully make a border run across to Burma.

Btw, I just finished "Crime and Punishment". I quite liked it. Of course, my taste tends to differ from the general public (as those who know of my opinion regarding "The Da Vinci Code" will testify).

Angel