{"id":9983,"date":"2012-01-24T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2012-01-24T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:56:30","slug":"photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Tour: Northern Thailand, Burma Border &#038; Down The Mekong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019ve just arrived in the sleepy little village of Pak Beng, Laos, mid-way between Chaing Khong Thailand and Luang Prabang. The last two days began with a sunrise shoot along the Mekong river, just across the street from our hotel, continued with a shoot of the Padong, longneck Karen women, and culminated with a foray into the border town of Tachilek, Myanmar. This morning we crossed the border from Thailand to Laos and boarded our private boat for the 6 hour cruise west towards Luang Prabang, stopping briefly to explore a riverside Hmong hill-tribe village.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-15-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9986\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9986\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-151.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-151-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-151-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-151-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-33\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9996\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9996 aligncenter\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-33\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-33.jpg 532w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-33-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-33-124x187.jpg 124w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-33-353x532.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-17-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9988\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9988\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-17\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-171.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-171-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-171-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-171-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9992\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-23-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9992\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9992\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9992\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-23\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-231.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-231-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-231-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-231-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ann chats with a long-neck Padon woman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9989\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9989\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-18\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-18.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-18-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-18-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-18-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9990\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-19\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9990\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9990\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9990\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-19\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-19.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-19-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-19-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-19-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa and Lisa posing with a long-neck Padong Karen woman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-34\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9997\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9997 aligncenter\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-34\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-34.jpg 532w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-34-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-34-124x187.jpg 124w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-34-353x532.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-24\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9993\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9993\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-24\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-24.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-24-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-24-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-24-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-16-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9987\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9987\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-16-2\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-16-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-16-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-16-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-16-2-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-16-2-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-15-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9984\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9984\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-3\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-3-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-3-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9985\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-15-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9985\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9985\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9985 \" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-5\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-5-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-15-5-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary shows some Hmong children a photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-tour-northern-thailand-burma-border-down-the-mekong\/karl_grobl_sea_2012-27\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9995\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9995\" title=\"Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-27\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-27.jpg 800w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-27-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-27-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl_Grobl_SEA_2012-27-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve just arrived in the sleepy little village of Pak Beng, Laos, mid-way between Chaing Khong Thailand and Luang Prabang. The last two days began with a sunrise shoot along the Mekong river, just across the street from our hotel, continued with a shoot of the Padong, longneck Karen women, and culminated with a foray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9983"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10006,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions\/10006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}