Map thus far......

Gav: Hey there folks, just thought I'd drop you a line to show you where we are and where we've been. We're currently in a little town in Thailand called Mae Sot, which is about 400km north of Bangkok. We're here to renew the visas as they are running out. You can renew the visas over here by popping to a border, crossing it then returning in to Thailand.
So this place is near the Burmese border, which is really intereting cos they're a dictatorship and this town has refugee camps in it for the Burmese people who are to scared or too skint to get back. It's great at the border cos there is a really long 'Friendship Bridge' that spans the river between the two countries. We have seen all sorts of stuff being passed across the border today, but more of that later. This town has Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and Karens (an area of Burma where the border is and the refugee people)and there doesn't appear to be any tension here.....It's quite a poor place but people as always are all smiling and laughy (is that a word?) Even though they occasionally get mortar attacked from the burmese side. There are guerilla rebel training camps across the water from us and we've met someone today who was offering to take us there....it was a case of.....mmm....maybe next time mate.......now off you pop! No it's great to see all the stuff you hear about on TV. He was showing us pictures of him with the rebels and there was a kid of about 15 with a Kalashnikov!!!! Can you imagine that. Now I was a real little brat when I was 15 so that would've come in handy at school, where I could have finished Mr Donahoe off.......erm sorry was getting carried away!The map above is our route so far the crosses are where we've stayed. The guy who runs our guest house is a legend. He's from Singapore and supports all the local poor buying them supplies etc.
Anyway he's going to try and organise it that we go to an orphanage or a nursery tomorrow so that will be interesting, if it happens!
Signing off now, have a good weekend you guys-
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