On the wings of wind

Geez... I wish you could understand French. I wrote a lot on the French blog, but i will not have time (and energy) to write all of it in english again. If anyone of you have some questions or want some more details about this or that city, just drop...

anti_''.bug_fck The legacy of colonisation... petanque ! But everyone has his own style ^^ In the boat from Huay Xai to Pak Beng. Behind a mountain of backpacks, I hide with Lao people from the mass of drinking backpackers. Only 11am and they begin their...

Wat Suan Dok Sa-wat dii ka Chiang Mai, au revoir Wat Suan Dok. I left this morning, almost 7 weeks after my first step in the city. And I definitely go back. Got some people waiting for me. People I'm looking forward to seeing again. New experiences to...

I just got a phone call saying "Hey, we saw the pics on your French blog but... couldn't understand a thing !" Here's the translation. Yeah, all of it... I wish I didn't say one of the sentence, though ^^ Buddhist live according to the Lunar Calendar....

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...

This clinic was created by Dr. Cynthia, a Karen herself, who escaped Burma after the 1988 Uprising and the following crackdown who left 3,000 deads. The Burmese version of Tian An Men, but unknown. Dr Cynthia began by taking care of wounded students fleeing...

So I rent a motorbike, once again. I drove in the countryside, looking for the river but never daring to go. I know that, on the other side of it, just a few kilometers away from me, Karen rebels and the DKBA or the Tatmadaw had camp sites. You can actually...

The Moei River is the Thai-Burmese border on many kilometers, in the West of Thailand. Like everywhere else, like in Mae Sai... people cross the river quite freely. Smuggling people and goods from Burma. The police close its eyes, it also gets money out...

Mae Sot is one of the most known border town in Thailand. It's about 90km west of Tak and enables people to go to Burma, through the "Friendship Brigde" (yeah, sure... what else ?), right into the town of Myawaddy. Further west lies Rangoon. It takes...

I know, i forgot to write them. But I'm reading a really interesting book about the Karen refugees and the fighting along the Thai-Burmese border in Mae Sot. It's called "Restless Souls", by Phil Thornton, and definitely worth reading ! Burma time of...