Mae Sot market

            Mae Sot is a weird city... I don't know whether it's Padho Manh Sha being killed here last Thursday... or maybe it's just the usual atmosphere... ?

            People don't smile... Usually, you do the beginning of a smile, they smile back and you can make a huge grin. In Mae Sot... they look at you and go on their way. The only people I saw smiling where the market sellers next to the river... and the policemen and Thai soldiers. Who always go by 2.
         
            There is an atmosphere of mistrust in Mae Sot. Thai people exploit Karen people, under-paying them. Sometimes, they don't pay them at all. Once, a Thai killed a Karen couple who went to ask for the 1,000bt they were due, after 1 year of work. The cost of human lives here. He didn't kill the baby, though...

        Yesterday morning, I heard a detonation. I got no idea whether it was a gun shot or something else.

        I never felt threatened. But I never felt safe either...

Day market, the pagoda in the background


And they do eat them... Put a whole frog between two wood pieces and put it on the fire.
I will never try this I think... Ok, I'm a French but not frog-eater. And they're not frogs, they're toads !!