Did you know that they grow butterflies in farms and use them to make lacquered pendants and earrings? I didn’t, till we went to a butterfly farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Meng Peeseua is the Thai word for butterfly, and in Thailand they have over 800 species!

The butterfly in this picture I took looks a lot like the Monarch Butterfly of North America. I wonder if it’s some Asian relative. Because of the odd focusing of the camera, I had to take 3 pictures before one got properly focused.

I think this picture looks quite cool as the background that the butterfly is resting on looks like the canvas of a painting. In reality, it’s just the netting of the butterfly enclosure

Some of you may ask why I’m talking about butterflies on a blog about working while traveling the world. The reason is, if we don’t take the time to appreciate the small things that we encounter - for example these butterflies - then traveling ends up being a chore of going place to place rather than really experiencing each place with all the little details that make it beautiful!

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