Back in 2014, two very close friends, a Kiwi & Thai are Rock Climbing one hour north of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. A crag at the foot of a little town of 500 locals called Mae-On at a Rock Climbing area is called Crazy Horse. Named after a natural feature of rock, 50m high up & about 12m long. It looks very horse-like with 2 crazy ears that stick up and can be seen for miles across.

On day 3 of the climbing adventure the couple got lost trying to make it back from the climbing crag. Bamboo forests are usually fine, at least until dusk & night when the snakes & mosquitos come out and the inch long fire ants & crazy spiders don’t leave you alone. After 3-4 hours of searching for the tracks things were getting serious. Without phone reception there was less than 20 minutes of light remaining. If the track is not found before then, it would be a scary night in a bamboo jungle!

With a one-last-chance ridge and a clearing, they could finally see it! Not the track, but the head and in particular the ears of Crazy Horse! Finally heading in the right direction, the path was found and they made it safely back to the entrance of the jungle. Thank you Crazy Horse! 🙂

These two friends, Jules and Jummi didn’t know it at the time, but 3 years later were to find another challenge, that of buying the Iconic Thai Orchid & recently, little brother Restaurant, what better named, Crazy Horse! 🙂