Just within the Thai border from Myanmar is a small village of people from Yunnan. They were from the Kuomintang half of the Chinese political divide. They left in 1949, drifted through Burma as it then was, and were found at some point, by the Thai army, within in Thai borders. And there they have stayed, and seemingly have prospered. The story our guide gave us, was that the King has encouraged them to develop their tea-growing and to create a tourist venture. This, they've done. They've created a lake by damming the depths of the valley, and have stocked it with fish which are free for all to use. The village (Ban Rak Thai) has mud-brick shops, thatch and rough murals on the mud brick. I bought a mug and some tea. About a kilometre before the village, the road goes through two other villages on the side - two different tribes have presumably been resettled, one on each side of the roadway. The one side is where the houses are in rows and close together; the other puts more emphasis on having cars, so the houses are further apart, and less spacious. The two settlements are totally different in character.