I spent the weekend visiting an old friend / business partner I call Mama Mojo in a temple high up a mountainside. Mama Mojo had moved there last December after problems with her blood pressure. She is now living a simpler life cleaning, cooking and making traditional medecines.
I don’t know the name of the temple, but it’s about 70km outside Chiang Mai. Wit (Mama Mojo’s son) took me there in a local bus -it cost 55 Baht each (about £1.20). I call her Mama Mojo because she also has a small business with Wit hand making small copy guitars: www.mamamojo.co.uk. Originally Mama Mojo and Wit were cutting and sanding the guitars by hand – I bought them a jig saw and an electric sander to make the job a little less arduous.
The temple was founded 18 years ago by Lung Por, the monk next to me in the picture. He is now 81 and still fit and full of energy. In the early days there was just forest; he lived alone without electricity, each day walking 6km down the mountainside to a main road to gather alms there before walking back up. Now there is electricity and a made up road – at least some of the way.
Local healing.
I eat snake.
I have a herbal steam session.
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