Getting Fumigated in Chiang Mai

Day in the life of a digital nomad family

Neighborhood fumigation, image by author

Ella Heart and I have been living in Chiang Mai, Thailand for the past few months with our kids. This morning we wanted to enjoy our morning coffee on our front terrasse to get a bit of morning fresh air before everything gets all hot and stuffy.

However this morning there was quite an unexpected event happening outside. First, we noticed a team of electricians working on the transformer outside of our house, which was nothing unusual, but then we noticed something we really didn’t expect:

A man with just a face mask going through the neighborhood spraying some kind of smoke everywhere.

The smoke did not smell of anything and wasn’t irritating but it was quite thick. We have no idea what that was about, I tried to google to no avail. What could it have been for, weeds, mosquitoes, covid? It reminded me of images from 202 in South Korea where they fumigated the cities but those guys were wearing full-on protective clothing and the spray was more liquid.

Does anyone know what this spray could have been for? Is it common to have your neighborhood fumigated in Thailand?

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