A lot of this trip has been about animals - and in every continent we have been to there has been one animal that is always lurking about - the king of the jungle - the elephant. We have been constantly considering how we felt about riding an elephant and had come to the decision that we would just go with the flow. A number of times we decided ...

I came here because a few friends said that it's nice and quiet and pretty. Aaron wasn't too intrigued by the sound of it, and he wanted to stay in Chiang Mai for a meditation retreat. So I voyaged alone. The town was busier and more touristy than I expected, but like I was told, it was beautiful, peaceful, and a little hard to leave. During my ...

J'ai trouvé le paradiiiiiiiiiiiiiis (et un clavier avec des accents). Nous sommes parties hier de Phitsanulok en direction de Pai, mais, malheureusement, l'autobus à Chiang Mai arrêtait de passer à 16h30. Nous avons donc passé la nuit dans cette ville charmante, que nous allons revoir dans quelques jours à notre retour de Pai. Et quand sera-t-il...

I was in ChiangMai for some serious soul-searching when a little voice told me it was time for a drive. So i drove to Pai. Seriously winding roads. I was whipping all the other vehicles up the winding stretches (cos Minis do corners better than anything else), when i got too smart for my own good, lost control of the rear at one point on a wet s...

heya sorry its been so long since a last entry, we now are in pai and arrived here yesterday around 3. The day before in Chiang Mai was cool as we went off to the zoo to try escape the waterfight but had no such luck and after the 20min drive we arrived at the zoo soaked nevermind hey all in the aid of new year. Chiang mai zoo was pretty sepecta...

We arrived in the sleepy little hippy town of Pai 2 days ago. We are staying in a small hut surrounded by other huts and a beautiful garden. We spent all day yesterday at a swimming pool lounging around and jumping in occasionally. This town reminds me of Taos, only much smaller. I haven't taken many photos here, but I am going to add more later...

We were so excited about today! TOday we got ride an elephant, at Joy's elephant Camp. Its not really a camp, because she is the only elephant, and they consider her more of a pet than anything else. Pan Waat is 35 years old and she is a sweatpea. We were able to ride her directly on her back for over an hour, while her mahout (elephant trainer)...

Hey there - Phoenix here. I'll be writing the blog today as Ido is currently indisposed (more about that later). So we rented motorbikes in Chiang Mai in order to ride to the chilled-out backpacker-hippie hangout known as Pai. It's a small town in an agricultural valley about 135 km from Chiang Mai. We set off in the morning, on a beautiful day,...

Este pequeno pueblecito en mitad de la montana es un oasis de paz y tranquilidad. Aun siendo temporada alta no esta atestado de gente, especialmente hasta que cae el sol. No es de extranar que mucha gente evite pasar por este lugar, teniendo en cuenta sus 172 curvas! En solo tres horas de trayecto me las arregle para vomitar tres veces, cuando y...

Ich bin jetzt schon vier Tage in Pai und werde wahrscheinlich noch ein paar bleiben... Es ist leicht nachzuvollziehen, warum so viele Menschen planen hier nur einen kleinen Zwischenstopp auf dem Weg nach Mae Hong Son einzulegen und letztendlich Wochen, Monate oder Jahre bleiben. Pai ist ein Touristennest, aber auf eine sehr angenehme Weise, was ...