Pai Hot Springs

... is excellent and there is little traffic and good road surface. We hired a bike for a fews days and took a trip out to the hot springs. The water is almost unbearably hot in the lower pools (think stepping into a roasting hot bath) and up to 80C at the ...

... Tamy, one of the mahout trainees from Lampang. Pretty funny. So we caught up and traded stories. Outside of town there are some hot springs. One night I drove out to try them out. The private ones were closed so went to the public springs in the ...

... home. The towns' aroma is a pleasant mixture of patchouli oil and Thai curry. Just outside town offers chances to relax in hot springs or visit waterfalls. But more than what this town offers to travelers, is its feeling and spirit which makes it so ...

... . Pai still hasn't lost it's charm though. There are still the local attractions just outside the town, such as the hot springs, waterfalls and canyon. But being the start of the hot dry season the waterfall is reduced somewhat in size. And there ...

... country to follow right sided ways. No harm done and in fact it was an amusing way to start the ride off. We visited some hot springs where the water was so hot some Chinese tourists were cooking eggs in a plastic bag. We took photos and when the eggs ...

... times on our way to the Mae Yen Waterfall, bicycled in the searing daytime temperatures to the even hotter hot springs and to the awesome Pai Canyon, and feasted on the exotic richness of dragon fruit, mangosteens, pineapple, mandarins, and just plain old ...

... 'd chicken I chow down on. THIS is cheap livin'. For just over a pound a day I hired a moped to checkout big batcaves, hot springs that were good fir nowt much else than boiling an egg in, and waterfalls I could piss harder than. This is the dry season ...

... to without a motor bike.  We decided to head to a nearby hot spring for a dip.  What we didn't know was when they say HOT springs, they mean it!  The water temperature was 80C or 176F, hot enough to boil eggs (for reference, hot tubs are usually set around ...

... in the guest houses in the town centre. Elephant rides, water rafting, bamboo rafting, off-roader quad bikes, some nearby temples, and hot springs (if you have a motorbike) all on offer. Just right for 2 or 3 days. oh, as for the question, where ...

... are closed) but this season is worse than most because of terrorism, SARS, wars and the Burmese problems. It was 7k to the hot springs and the warmest day since we arrived back in Thailand and it was also the middle of the day. Clever eh! We were ...

... from the bus trip. We rented motorbikes on our second day and went exploring through the countryside. There are several waterfalls and hot springs here and we have seen most of them and attempted to see the others. the motorbike has been an interesting ...

... into the river, but it was on its knees/lying down so we didn't fall far. when we got back to the elephant camp, they had some hot springs there we could use. and some of them were really hot! we were told we could bring an egg and cook it in them, but ...

... gleich einen Roller und erkunden die wirklich schoene Umgebung des von Urbewaldeten Bergen umgebenen Dorfes. Einen Canyon, Hot Springs, Elefantencamps und einen Wasserfall. Waehrend wir hier natuerlich in der prallen Sonne schwitzen tragen die Thais ...

... that would maybe class you as a "real traveller". We hired a motorbike the next day and visited waterfalls, hot springs, elephants walking along the country roads and whizzed around the tiny village numerous times. Then typically it rained for the ...

... la musique live et une atmosphere d'enfer abondent, et il y a toute sorte de choses à faire dans la nature autour : hot springs, canyon, tribus dans les montagnes, rafting, etc, etc. Nous restons dans une petite maisonnette à coté de la rivière pour 70 ...

... are in Pai...but it was all quite fun anyway. lol. The next day we decided to take our bikes to a waterfall (much cooler than hot springs)! Little did we know that it was going to be uphill the whole entire way. I felt like I was about to faint by the ...

Great place - live music, lots of beer and kiwi burgers just like 'Gourmet Burger' in London...well, almost.

... Caught up with my friend Gordon who is coming out to Japan and another friend from India. Most importantly, had a dip in the hot springs there! This evening I'm flying down to Bangkok and from there to Tokyo where I'm going to meet a friend at the Earth ...

... looking westerners. The last few days involved (in no particular order) sliding down waterfalls, hiking over burning leaves, bathing in hot springs, the end of my prohibition on eating pork, a New Years Party, eating woodpecker, river rafting in a rubber ...

... whinged as hard as a ladyboy getting her/his hair wet. We got through the whirlpools, had much fun jumping from a 10m high canyon and bathed our feet in the hot springs. Weary bodies were rested at our groovy guest house, it even had a dvd player!