Trekking...continued

At the end of our second day of walking, we arrived at a village inhabited by people of three different tribes, the Lahu, Lisu and Akha tribes. We stayed at the home of the village's Lahu chief, which was well appointed with a makeshift shower and a regular sit-down toilet.

One of the evening's highlights as we toured the village was meeting the Lisu Spirit Man. He like most was completely smitten with the kids and followed us on our tour through the village laughing and posing for pictures.

Every village we visited was overrun with animals, in particular pigs, dogs and chickens, which all roamed freely throughout the village. Starting with the roosters crowing starting at 4:00 a.m., we woke up in the morning to a symphony of crowing roosters, snorting and squealing pigs, and barking dogs.

Before we left on our final morning, we talked with some Akha women and visited the nursery school.