Go East Young Woman.
Neuie was nice enough to loan us her truck to make the trip from Chiang Rai to Chiang Khong, on the border of Laos. I took this picture of them on the way.
On the road to Chiang Khong.
Quite a nice drive to Chiang Khong -- strange mini-mountains rise out of the rice fields as a prelude to the mountains. Please enter the comments and read Joe's geological explanation of these structures -- much better than my description!
KMT Cemetery in Chiang Khong -- quite a serence little place and good for looking over the city and across the river into Laos. About 200 graves facing China (actually Laos) are on the hilltop. I couldn't find any information about why it's here. One tourist pamphlet indicated that many former KMT soldiers and Chinese Nationalists fled China in the 40s and settled in Northern Thailand (near Doi Mai Salong).
posted by nursemarnie at 12:03 AM
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those "strange mini mountains" are called "karst towers"
they form the same way limestone caves form. if you dissolve limetsone bedrock, first you will get small holes. With time, the holes become caves. After an even longer time, most of the limestone is dissolved away, and you are left with those towers, rememnants of the old limestone bedrock.
Awesome pics!
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