Pai River

Hidden between the vast and seemingly endless mountain range of northern Thailand lies Pai, a small but well trodden and supplied town (even with 762 curves between itself and Chiang Mai – a stat they're very proud of) that attracts not only backpackers but also tourists from Thailand. This is a marked change from the South where …

... kicks and it was pretty spectacular to watch. The next day I woke up early to catch my minibus to Pai. Pai is a very small town in the far north of Thailand and known for being very relaxed and a good place to just chill out. Sounded like a good place ...

Chiang Mai is Thailand's second city, but it has a 20 times lower population than the capital Bangkok, giving it a small-town relaxed feeling. Chiang Mai has many attractions including some beautiful temples and monasteries. We take some time to ...

... confused as a local.  Someone thought I was a German schoolteacher.  That works.  One of the things I like about Thailand is that when someone asks where you're from (both locals and tourists), they really mean it.  People are ...

... up of the river as well as, again cutting off a possible route that gibbons could have previously traveled on. Although Thailand has introduced some good laws to protect the environment, there still are plenty of problems with people encroaching on the ...

Here in this little town sitting right beside a little river,surrounded by beautiful forrest-covered mountains, is a little community of people who are stuck. They come only meaning to stay for a couple of days or a week and find themselves in the same ...

... straight to Chiang Mai, but I'm going to write about that in my next blog...  From there, we headed north to Pai, a small town in the north of Thailand, which we'd heard was a bit of a hippy haven and a great place to relax.... and boy were the ...

... I thought about our intention of riding back the 160 kms to Chiang Mai by rented motorbike. When we arrived in Pai we looked around a few basic river-side bungalows but I thought that since we were hear a few days we deserved better and checked in to a ...

... the standard sawngthaew to minibus transfer we were on our way to the much-hyped winding highway into the mountains of northwestern Thailand.  The road offered hundreds of hairpins and after our brief rest stop a poor Thai woman in the back hurled ...

A piece of Pai, is like a slice of heaven tucked in between lush green jungled mountains in the North West of Thailand. Pai means "bye" in Thai, which is kind of ironic because once no one seems to go anywhere once they arrive here. A traveler once wrote ...

************************* Thursday 11th March Today was the day we were going to head off into the jungles of northern Thailand to raft on bamboo and ride elephants. Unfortunately the only thing we got to ride today was ceramic. Friday 12th ...