Lilu Hotel Pai

... off slowly so she could get comfortable, we cruised through the two streets in Pai at 20 km an hour before getting out to the major road which leads to the countryside. Feeling the cool breeze as we rode out of town to Wat Phra Thart Mae Yen, climbing the 300 concrete and wooden steps we finally reached the gate to the temple. Next stop Tha Pai Hot Springs.....motoring along the small two lane country road past rice fields, banana plantations and luscious scenery ...

... br>After about 2 hours of rapids, there was a 7m cliff jump option. Doesn't sound too high until you realise that the water has zero visibility and the current is so strong that by the time you resurface you are 10m along the river and have to swim immediately to where the boats are moored up. Great fun.<br> We arrived in Mae Hong Son at the end of the river trip - a small town on the Burmese border.

... br> <br> We are off to Bangkok tomorrow night on the night train (sleeper carriage), then spend a day in Bangkok before heading south on another sleeper train to Chumphon. From there we catch a ferry to the island of Ko Tao for a few days r'n'r on the beach - and hopefully some snorkelling. Finally we'll take another ferry to the larger island of Ko Samui from where we'll back to Bangkok and home.<br> <br> Can possibly e-mail from Ko Tao or Ko Samui - if poss.

... I don't want to return it anymore. I went to some great waterfalls in the surrounding and to Pai's Canyon. It was nice, but well it wasn't King's Canyon of course ;)<br>However, first thing I'm doing when back in Germany: buying a motorbike!! :) <br><br>And to everybody who is thinking about going there: Don't cry bar is the place to be! Yummy cocktails, great music, nice staff ;) <br><br ...

... monkeys.. lol we slept in this awwwful place which was a wooden structure with mozzi nets.. not even a room and we all thought we were bein eaten by some strange lice or fleas.. <br>this place had no electricity or a shower and as for hot water thats wayyyy out the question lol. i now have no expectations about accomadation whatsoever lol. <br>on the second day we did like 5 hours of raftin (today ...

... It was pretty guff compared to the one in Cambodia, the cooking seemed a bit rushed, the recipe sheets were wrong and the food was so so. The woman later told Ang she suffered from stress and anger issues so she was going to live in a temple for seven days without food or talking, which explained a lot! Actually the second dish of the 2 was quite nice, a simple chicken and noodles dish with soy sauce which I should be able to recreate at home hopefully.<br>I had also ...

Took a winding hilly bus ride to Pai, Thailand's self proclaimed hippie town. With all I heard about it, I wasn't that impressed. But I did sign up for a rafting trip to Mae Hong Son. I didn't know what to expect really, but once we went down our first rapids, I ...

We waved Rachel off last night and, as had become the norm, went to Na's Kitchen for dinner. Na is from Chiang Mai and opened her kitchen restaurant 7 years ago. She has a great reputation for excellent Thai cooking at local prices, and the variety of Thai and Western customers are testament to her considerable skills &#8211; especially given the regular power cuts here. <br><br> <br>Over dinner James and I discussed what we ...

... eyes firmly fixed on it as i backed away towards the entrance before<br>making a dart out of the gap and into daylight once again! The second<br>cave we trekked to was called waterfall cave. The enterance to this<br>cave was much larger with a stream running though the centre. We walked<br>a little way into the darkness but it wasnt long before we were on our<br>hands and knees or in some cases crawling army style through the<br>narrowest of gaps ...

... tourist streets of Chiang Mai, we inhaled the fresh country air, dangled our feet in the COLD temperatures of Ma Paeng Waterfall, cris-crossed a river more than twenty 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 bananas ...