Early morning on the next day, I hurried to Warorot Market where a local van station located. I need to talk with local around there to ensure I go to the exact meeting point. This is a second thing that is great for travelling solo, I need to get out of comfort zone because I am normally very shy.
Warorot Market [ตลาดวโรรส]
Oh, I forgot to tell you that I book a van via the facebook page here. In case that you want to follow my trip. The van driver came to the meeting point at sharp meeting time. The benefit as I go solo hence I am the one who sit in front with the driver. I try to get out of comfort zone again by talking with the driver along the way. He told me a story of forming this local van system, at first, local people anti him and thought he is an investor who will take benefit from them so he need to prove that his intention is trying to connect traveler with the local area and that can improve villagers income. .........Yes, I am talking with the founder of this biggest local van system !
Mae Kampong Village [หมู่บ้านแม่กำปอง]
You never know what you will find or who you will meet on the journey. After talking for a while, he can remember me as I need to use his service again tomorrow to go back in the city. I also knew from him on the new destination that you will never know if you did not talk with the local expert. For example, the first picture of my thread is a royal project where a rare species and one of a kind turtle inhabit!!!
My destination for tonight is Mae Kampong Village that locate in a deep mountain range but it's so natural and cold. You may heard that Thailand has only one season which is summer. But here, It's so cold at night and I need to stay solo (alone)!!!
Home stay at Mae Kampong beside a stream
There are a lot of home stay here. I chose the one that has a stream beside the house. Because I can spend my time close to the nature and chill out. I visited the local waterfall by talking with the home stay staff and they contacted local transportation to take travelers around the village.
Mae Kampong Waterfall
I wandered around the village and had a coffee to enjoy the view from the top of the village. Several coffee shops here as well. I looked for a local Northern Thai food but I found out later that my home stay had it and the price is reasonable so I ordered food with them for dinner.
A Coffee shop
Village view from a coffee shop
I would like to explore the village a little more before heading back. This one is a bridge on the tree, it is a spot for tourist to take a picture. This belongs to the coffee shop, you can use it for free if you buy coffee.
Tree bridge at [another] coffee shop
View from the tree bridge
Late evening, I went back to the home stay and had dinner. All food is only for me. Yesss!! (Actually there was more food than this picture, I may ordered too much) Hotel staff served a watermelon to me after the meal. I can finished almost all food but my stomach was very full!!!
Local food dinner
Get back to the room. My room has a tree trunk inside. Quite small but safe and sound. It's so cold at night, it makes me think again that if I did not prepare well for the trip, I may get fever or even freeze at night and no one know. It's quite scary but this thing makes me can think more.
Tree house (room)