Bisu villages

On Saturday we went by van to two Bisu villages in the northeastern part of Thailand, about 3 hours drive from Chiang Mai.

Coffee with a View

We stopped for coffee at the aptly named "Coffee with a View" and proceeded to the first of two villages for lunch. If you are a locavore you would have loved the lunch - everything on the table other than the water bottles had gone no more than a few hundred metres from where it was grown. Even if you aren't a locavore you would have loved the lunch - the freshest of greens and vegetables and pineapple and mango.

We ate by forming a ball of sticky rice and dipping it in a salsa of pepper, garlic and I'm not sure what else. It was wonderful! Depending on spice tolerance you could put a lot or a little salsa on the rice. There were cucumber slices for cooling down.

Making the salsa

In this first village there is only one professed Christian - a young man (animist/Buddhist) who for years was hired by Wycliffe to help with the Bisu translation. When the New Testament was done he became a Christian. He is encouraged by a long term American missionary and by Por, who works with the Bisu for Wycliffe Thailand.

We then went to Por's village and home where her family are the only Christians. They welcomed us warmly, with more fresh, picked from their trees mango, and after a visit and prayer we headed back to Chang Mai.

On the way back we stopped by a roadside hot spring.

It was a long day but very interesting.