Map

 I have tried to draw a map of our area, but it is not very good.  I tried to enlarge it, but could not.  It is not as clear here as it shows on my computer, so it will be very hard for you to see the names of the villages. Of course this is a crude drawing and not a bit to scale, but maybe you can see roughly the set up of the 11 villages we serve, and the nearest clinics and hospitals.The following list is the names of the villages in order of walking distance (At a fast pace)!  beginning with the closest village to the farthest.  Please note the abbreviations because when I write, it is easier to abbreviate!1.  BeYoTa (BYT)2.  WaSuTa (WST )                   25 minutes3.  GeGhah  (GG)                    40 minutes4.  LaGlah (LG)                       1 hour5.  BlaGlow (BG)                     1 hour 30 minutes6.  NyeLeGwee (NLG)               1 hour 30 minutes7.  MeDeLeGwee (MDLG)            1 hour 50 minutes8.  CoDeJo  (CDJ) (Can only walk to this one)  up to 2 hours, very steep, rugged.9.  MooDooKee (MDK)              2 hours10.  KryCo   (KC)                   2.5-3 hours11. PaThaMooTa  (PTMT) This one we only drive to. We can take a motorbike now to all the villages accept CoDeJo.  Others we can drive the truck, but that takes longer and is much farther going around than walking to some of the villages.  We usually walk.You can see MeDuGlow (MDG)to the East which takes 2 hours by truck on a good day. Then on to Omkoi is another 2.5 - 3 hours north of MDG.  Add another 4-5 hours to get to ChiangMai hospitals.To the West is Meta Hospital.  The shortest distance by truck is 4-4.5 hours, but with construction we go another way entirely which takes much longer. (We go north from PaThaMuTa and wind northward, ending up north of Meta). My map shows Meta to be very close to the Pagoda, when in actuality it is the same distance as it is from BYT the long way around to the Big Pagoda!  My paper was too small.Meta Hospital to MaeSot is another hour and a half.  Total distance from BYT to MaeSot is about 5.5 -6 hours.If you draw an imaginary line from BYT, past LaGlah village, to the Big Pagoda, you can get an idea of how much quicker it would be to drive to Meta that way!! That pathway is impossible to take a truck on right now. When we walk all the way out during the rainy season, this is the way we go. This walk takes 6.5 hours.