...continued from Sawasdee Kap
Took a day out of the temple travelling through the hills of Chiang Rai and also looking at other temples in the State.
The small community that lives in the hills are ALL Chinese descendants and can mostly speak fluent Mandarin on top of Thai.
The story is that many years ago when General Mao ZeDong became Chairman Mao Zedong and rose to power in communist China, a group of unsuccessful rebels headed by a General loyal to Sun Yet Sen had to flee China.
They migrated southwards and eventually ended up in the hills of Chiang Rai where they stirred up a small squabble for land between themselves and the natives.
The Thai Government eventually stepped in and settled them in an unpopulated area in the hills. They have lived there ever since and for the life of me I cannot remember what the name of that area is called.
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