The Write Way Around: Traveling Tales » Category » Thailand http://thewritewayaround.com Traveling, Writing and Living Around the World Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:23:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Trekking through Northern Thailand http://thewritewayaround.com/blog/2011/trekking-northern-thailan/ http://thewritewayaround.com/blog/2011/trekking-northern-thailan/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:02:00 +0000 apetri16 http://thewritewayaround.com/2011/09/05/123/ King Kong and her little sister in the ‘shower’. Just returned from trekking through Northern Thailand in the jungle for three days, where I spent my first night in a Burmese long neck village playing (and failing at) card games by candle light with some friends (recent Yale law school grad who just passed the bar, a […]

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