Pai
Travel Blogs from Pai, Thailand
Caving and insects the size of small children!
What a day! Took a local bus from Chang Mai to Sappong - a small village/town on the northern borders of thailand about 5 km from the Burmese border. To say the conditions on the bus were a tight squeeze would be an understatement! The distance between ...
First Step
... a dog who confused me for a fire hydrant (coming to thing about it, I don't think I saw any fire hydrants in Thailand), eating a variety of unusual foods like frogs, Barracuda (neither taste like chicken), raw crabs, snails, and eels (I'm still planning ...
A little piece of Pai
... a 4 month holiday). We bundled onto a minibus and started the 4 hour journey to a place called Pai, a little town nestled between the mountains peaks of northern Thailand. Of course to get there you have to take the small roads up and through the ...
Tham Lot (Cave / Hoehle)
... wollten heut Nacht anscheinen nicht auf Jagd gehen. Pech. Am naechsten Tag bin ich dann am Motorrad zum Bus von Sop Pong nach Pai gebracht worden. Gar nicht so leicht mit vollem Gepaeck am Ruecken auf dem Motorrad zu balancieren, geht ganz schoen in die ...
Pai and surroundings / Pai und Umgebung
... ; zum Wasserfall "Nam Tok Mo Paeng" gefahren; ueber die im Bikini herumhuepfenden Touristen-Maedels gewundert (dass tut man nicht, in Thailand's Norden) und ueber ein paar mit Baby, dass das Baby einfach auf dem Felsen auf der anderen Seite vom Bach ...
Pai, and the Couchsurfing Collective...and FATE
... surf twice in Australia. The couchsurfing project has become a nonprofit organization and had set up temporary shop in Phuket, Thailand in December. We really wanted to meet everyone volunteering at the CS collective, and also hang out with Casey ...
Chilling in Pai
... ;relaxed back at the hut. (I think she is still not too comfortable with motorbikes after the wheelie incident in Thailand!) I stopped at a few temples along the way, had a bite to eat at a nearby Chinese minority village, and ...
Hippy Pai
... bike ride around the surrounding villages there wasn't a great deal to do accept enjoy a cold Singha. Pretty good really! We finally managed to leave Pai and the slow pace of life on a 60 hour journey to the equally slow paced country of ...
Surprises
The number of French people either traveling or living in Thailand...and the fact that I've got on with most of them! Finding a sizable lizard in my bamboo Hut. I go to see Tutu. "Tutu! I find big lizard - this big! (I drop prepositions, as one does when ...
Lisu Village & Childrens Muay Thai
... place again and then we made the trek back to Muay Thai in time for the first fight. The intention was to sample the Pai nightlife tonight but given we had stupidly turned up early for the fights it now seemed unlikely, plus Charlotte hadn't dressed for ...
Hilltribes, Dschungel und fast Ruhe!
... durch Doerfer der Karen und Lisu gekommen und gegen 4 Uhr ging es dann wieder mit dem Pickup ueber die Staubpiste zurueck nach Pai und wir sahen bei der Ankunft dann wieder etwas eingestaubt aus. Auf jeden Fall war das Trekking wieder einmal genial und ...
Do nothing in Pai???
Lovely. I love it here; this is a small town with everything you need. Lots of tourists but still one of my favorite places to be. As soon as I got here my dad made plans to come and meet me in Chaing Mai. My very few days here I spent exercising boxing ...
Chutes d'eau et chute en scooter
Ouais ! Finalement, nous allons rester a Pai plus longtemps que prévu... Cela fait 3 jours que nous sommes ici, et nous comptons quitter que dans 2 jours. Anouk est partie avec Astride faire une expédition de rafting de 2 jours. J'ai préféré ...
biking to pai
... I could post more text or the long promised pictures. I am writing this from the beautiful chilled out backpackers haven Pai in northwest Thailand quite close to the border to Burma. I got here on a little motorbike tour (small distance, duration ...
A Pai in the sky
... of the next chapter of our story... Secondly, i thought i would make some general observations about thailand, as you will soon find out, my stay in Pai was pretty uneventful. 1) it is perfectly acceptable to ride with up to 4 people on a moPED, ...
Chilling in Chiang Mai
Hi, Well we got into Thailand no problem - they didn't even check whether or not we had onward tickets! Our hotel in Chiang Mai was great, we got an internet deal so it worked out as about 6 quid each a night for a superior room in a 4 star hotel. ...
Pai Day 206 (13th Dec)
... for me to find out more about Andrew. Sensing the sunlight was fading away we carried on our scavenger hunt for the Pai signposts for cheesy photos,eventually we found them (not before Andy dissapointingly discovered the post office was closed) and had a ...
Peaceful Thailand
Back in the land of wats(temples) and mango sticky rice:) Interesting how different Thailand felt after spending 8 months in India versus a year in Japan! Everything seemed to move so efficiently... no cows in the middle of the street as my taxi driver ...
Nord Thailand - Pai
... 100 km Serpentinen ueber 1500m hohe Paesse (mega schoen) sind wir am spaeten Nachmittag in Pai angekommen. Pai ist das bekannteste Hippie Dorf in Thailand. Es sind zwar nur die Farang (Auslaender) die sich hippie anziehen, aber das allein macht einen ...
Chiang Mai to Pai (rhyme not intentional)
... killing an hour while Kate naps. In about 45 minutes, we are going to take our little scooter to a Wat (Thai temple) which overlooks Pai. We've heard it's a pretty nice view. Sorry if this post was a little boring; cheers for reading it all if you ...
Bee Mi Lahu*
I'll keep this one short for now... I am quite tired. I just got back from a 3 day trek in the northwest corner of Thailand, not too far from the Burmese border. I am now back in Pai, a small town about 4 hours away from Chaing Mai that has an ...
The Rain Came Down
It rained heavy all night and into morning. I went in search of the church, but arrived between services. About half the people in the village are Christian, the other half are Buddhist. The only drum kit in town sits on the pulpit, its high hat stuck ...
Pai in the sky
... their fence near the road. They would make the two finger to the mouth sign that says, "You want to smoke?" I did not. Thailand has had a major drug war crackdown in the past several years. They don't mess around over here. Over the passed several years, ...
The Golden Triangle - Pai
Pai is a touristy place splodged down right out in the middle of the Northern Thai mountain wilderness. Catering for droves of people travelling from Chang Mai to do decent trekking and living with hill tribes its full of bars, restaurants and places to ...
Pong Deu Hot Spring
... experience to be the spectator of this sort of show where the artist is mother Nature. Spend few hours there then went to Pai, north west of Chiang Mai to stop and go swimming with an elephant in the river ! After hours of mountain roads, constantly at ...
Life of Pai
In search for a dose of adrenaline, Pai and its white water rafting expeditions seemed the ideal spot. A hippy laid back mountain town, its sleepiness contrasts the thundering river that passes at its doorstep. It was on this that we paddled, floated ...
Life in Pai
We spent the last days in Pai just chilling out! I guess the trips to the waterfall and the canyon were tiring us a bit... Anyways, we have been mastering the mao-mao cards game (I was good before, but now... Ian is not bad either... I have to ...
Bangkok und Nordthailand
... waermstens empfohlene Land auf unserer Reise betreten werden. Nach drei Wochen im mittlerweile bereits ziemlich westlich orientierten Thailand, wo das Angebot die Nachfrage bei weitem uebersteigt, erhoffen wir uns nun wieder mehr Einfachheit und ...
White Water Rafting & Caving
Pai is a tiny little town in the hills of Northern Thailand. Very chilled out and not much to do, except use it as a starting point for trekking or rafting trips. I went on a 2 day rafting trip with two guys I'd met back in Chiang Mai (and had then done ...

