Today the Sport and Tourism Minister spent 2 days in Nan with a large delegation. They stayed at our Resort and wanted to speak with us Aussies. There were lots of photographers so I am guessing we ended up in the newspaper!

Big trip today up north to see the worlds only salt well in the mountains. It has been there for over 800 years and control of the salt well has been the cause of many wars over the centuries.

Instagramable photo opportunity at our coffee stop on our way up North!

The views were amazing from the coffee shop. As usual the photos do not do it justice.

This is a very famous road in Nan. It is called “Curvey Road Number 3”. Many Thai tourists come just to seen this road and don’t go any further. There were, what I guess would be, lots of influencers coming here with photographers.

I think this was an accommodation place along the way. Fabulous roof structures.

Lunch time! More food! This time though we managed to find a bottle of Australian Jacobs Creek Rose!

Lunch was a prawn salad, a mushroom stir-fry, pork ribs in broth, green fish curry, fried pork shoulder. Not many kitchens here have ovens so most things are deep fried. Most food here is served cold or at room temperature.

Handwash basin.

Dessert was pick your own banana!

Salt drying in the sun.

The 800 year old salt well. It is Buddhist lent at the moment. This lasts for 3 months and no salt is taken out of the wells and this time.

There are vendors all around the salt well selling salt!

The heavily salted water is pulled up from the well and put over heat to evaporate the water leaving the salt behind which then needs to be dried.

There were quite a few landslides along the road and a fair bit of road damaged due to all the heavy rains and flooding they have had. The scenery along the way was quite spectacular. They farm very steep slopes.

Then it was off to dinner to another riverside restaurant where we could see more dragon boats practicing.

Even in the pouring rain!

Khun Tai, Khun Tae and Ma’am. Khun Tae owns the hotel and the resort and Khun Tai is her twin sister who was visitng from Bangkok. Ma’am was our tour guide and clothes shopping helper extoadanaire!

Duang, Gillian, Romney, Mel.

This was a chicken and cashew dish, bit of Chinese influence in this one, and a Nan Sausage. I really enjoyed the Nan sausage, lots of lemongrass in it.