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the way to Doi Mae Salong you will see some great mountain spots. When we arrive on the mountaintop Santi Khiri we overlooking the tea and fruit plantations.
This is the home of descendants of Chinese nationalist soldiers, how fled to and settled in Thailand in 1940. There is a museum for KMT, where you can learn what happened after they got kicked out of China. They escaped to Birma, bud they kicked out of Birma into Thailand, Where they helped the Thai gouverment to faight against the communists for many years. After wards they cultivate opium for many years, til the king of Thailand helped then to change the opium plantations in to tea and coffee plantations.
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