Before our last day of paddling the Yom River, I get my lean on, sporting my quick-dry gear and bright orange emergency whistle (and my three week old Thai haircut).
Some of our canoes tied up at Kaeng Sua Ten (Dancing Tiger Rapids), where The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, or EGAT for short, has for threatened to build the last big dam in Thailand. The nearby villages, including Dawn Chai, where we homestayed for two nights have successfully fought the building of the dam for around twenty years and continue to do so (if the dam were built, Dawn Chai and numerous other villages will be completely inundated, along with the last stand of highly prized Golden Teak in the whole country).
Looking upstream from Kaeng Sua Ten.
Looking upstream from Kaeng Sua Ten.
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