Northern Thailand

Big, beautiful, and strong.

And out of all of the indigenous tribes that I work with in Northern Thailand, mainly the Pyongyang, there's zero.

shamanic interface with any of these things.

I've spent months in Thailand driving around, meeting plant doctors and shamans, and you mentioned ingesting the mushroom.

2000 years is a very long time and You know, the whole area where acupuncture and Chinese medicine were practiced was very large.

China, but we can say even parts of Mongolia, Japan, Korea, maybe even Northern Thailand.

So a lot of ideas have been developed and used by doctors to treat people.

And some of them have fallen and have been used lesser.

And he told me a story over lunch.

He had been a pioneer missionary to an unreached people group in Northern Thailand.

And his story was absolutely jaw dropping.

I mean, he described how he'd met this tribal chief, how he'd been invited to live in the village, how he'd built his house with his own hands, learned the language and so forth.

And let's move on to the Hero of the Week Award, the Gitano Barada Hero of the Week Award with the TukTukClub.com. Run by Bruce, who's a Leeds fan.

It's TukTuk Tours in Northern Thailand.

HW10 for 10% off if you go through us.

And Elephant would have been more interesting than the game on Sunday, I think.

the

elephant maybe who

knows seems unlikely who knows but yeah do look up thetuktukclub.com go see Bruce and get yourself on a tuk-tuk tour of northern Thailand

jungle cookery

I went to different retreats.

I went to a retreat in Northern Thailand.

I was absolutely obsessed with my routine.

I Liked all of the tinctures.

I was very lucky.

I was in Mantak Chia's, uh, purpose-built place in North Thailand, so we weren't just shut in a room.

Um, and then if you spend even longer, you'll start to see people's energy field.

And here's the other thing.

Uh, twelve boys from a soccer, um, soccer club, um, and their coach, they were trapped inside a cave after heavy rain, and it was flooding.

It was in North Thailand, I think.

They were just young lads, eleven to sixteen years, youth age.

And this rescue mission involved some of the best Navy SEALs from the country and also, um, from overseas.

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Welcome back to the All About Thailand podcast and welcome to our final episode in this homestay series.

Over the past weeks we have taken you along the Mekong River into quiet market towns, riverside communities and places that really look like... anyone can can meet the family and and be treated like the family we've seen the very best places to stay there aren't always the ones that you find in guidebooks and there are ones that you just find by asking by slowing down by willing to be simply just a guest in somebody else's home now Today for our closing journey together we're heading further north again back to a place where we previously have visited in our series of podcasts earlier on and that is Shanghai.

Shanghai absolutely amazing place we really really did enjoy it when we went and it was just something about our whole journey.

A- and then from Taiwan, where did you go?

From Taiwan, I went to northern Thailand, the Golden Triangle area, Chiang Mai, which was beautiful and fascinating.

Uh, I did consular work there, which means that's where you help Americans who get into trouble, and in Thailand, where it's pretty easy to get in trouble if that's what you're looking for.

Um, and, uh, it was a beautiful place.