Note from blogmaster: Time flew. It was more than a month since my last chapter but hey, I'm back guys!
**ON THE WAY TO DOI ANG KHANG**
Our trip continued shortly after we came back down from the mountain top and broke our fast. Compared to my last trip, I was less famished this time since I took a bit of snacks with me. Experience did help! We started by travelling down the steep slope to the foot of Doi Pha Hom Pok mountain.
'One down, one more to go', I thought.
Chiang Mai is a home of orange farms with stunning landscape and I recommend you guys to visit one of them if you have a chance to. Along the way, we have visited a very nice little orange farm. The owner allowed us to explore and collect a handful of very good looking oranges from the trees. Among my family, mom was the worst when she climbed the Doi Pha Hom Pok and needed my brother to drag her up the slope; however, she is the most skillful in choosing ripe oranges. She came back to life, started her selecting, picking, and tasting. And I was probably one of the worsts, if not the worst in reckoning the ripe oranges. I knew it will turn very orange when ripe, but hell yeah, what is the difference between this and that orange shade. Hmmm, probably the saying that women are better in differentiating colours are true after all...
From the green and productive orange farm, the group moved up the steep slope again. The road to Doi Ang Khang are very close to Thailand's border with Myanmar. There are soldier bases here and there. One famous soldier base is called "Nor-Lae" and it was the place we rested and enjoyed ourselves for a while. It was already afternoon. The place was well preserved and reminded me of my first visit with the other group of friend yesteryear. We spent our time exploring and taking photos. The large arrow in the photo below is supposed to show where the north is.
We arrived in the valley of Doi Ang Khang before sunset. The night was spent in the local primary school premises (we were with Trekking Thai, mind you). We were looking forward to the beautiful morning in the exotic garden.
