THAILAND (8/09/2007 - 4/10/2007)

A few meters inward were enough to see the big differences
from Cambodia. The roads are perfect, good cars, the fields
disappeared, no more stilt houses but new factories.
In two days we reached Bangkok where we got the Indian and
Burmese Visas.

The border points with Myanmar are still closed (for more than 40
years) so we bought two flight tickets. Chang Mai -
Mandalay,
Yangon - Kolkata. We cycled one week toward Chang Mai
(north of Thailand).
We left our bikes and went by bus to a
village close to the Burmese border. In that place two
tribes live, Karen and Long Neck. They are refugees from
Myanmar, escaped from their own land.

4/10/07, we are ready to take off for Myanmar but the
protest inside the country makes us a bit afraid.
Despite the uprising we decided to go.

Claudio and Patrizia