“The oldest building now is the Buddhist Temple or Wat. We have seven or eight monks living there now, I think, but I am not one hundred percent sure.
“My grand Mum – my Mum’s Mum - told me about a time when it was best for children to be locked up as it got dark because tigers hunted at night and so did bad men from over the border with Laos. There were also giant snakes that could carry off children, dogs and even young cattle. Mum and grand Mum told us we must be good and come in early or maybe animal or foreigner get us, but it was before my time really. Baan Suay was not in the jungle when I was a girl.”
“This was why houses were traditionally built on legs, er, stilts - so that the family could go upstairs at night and pull up the door. They stay inside at night because they scare
