Doi Inthanon weekend

Last weekend I travelled to Doi Inthanon with a work mate and two of her friends. It's Thailand's highest mountain, at 2590m, and is about 100km from Changers.
We hired a red jeep with squeaky brakes and no power steering. I ended up driving up near the top - mostly in 1st gear, despite the good roads.
What an adventure we had. Started with having to pay 400 baht entry - the locals pay 40 baht. There is a fair bit of foreigner discrimination when it comes to paying for some things in Thailand...
Anyway, shook that off and headed to some great waterfalls, before heading to the summit, which in itself is a bit of anticlimax, requiring a 20m walk from the carpark. My workmate loves bird watching, so most of the weekend involved the use of binoculars, and for me, a camera.
I particularly liked the unique cloud forest, sphagnam moss and alpine savannah vegetation types near the top. We had fresh rainbow trout for dinner and stayed overnight in a very cute bamboo/palm leaf 3mby3m cabin on the edge of a Karen hilltribe village, surrounded by rice fields (currently empty). You just don't get that kind of experience anywhere in Australia.....

karen hill tribers gardening at a tourist stop off; The roof of Thailand