My Lonely planet said of this city to be the most chilled out in Thailand and I can only confirm. 4 hours away from Chang Mai (by bus), probably the craziest drive I have yet experienced, going up and down the mountains, full of tricky curves on our way we spent half of the time on the oposite side of the road not knowing what would be there after the next curve. The driver could only bip to aware (can I say that in english?) the car/bus/motorcycle coming but I got really scared about 2, 3 times when the car coming in front of us didn't slow down.... But an highlight was that we travelled in the evening and the sunset on the mountain was amazing maybe better than on the beach!
Anyway we finally arrived in Pai, got ourself a lovely bungalow near the river... once we dropped our bags we went for a walk around the city and I couldnt help myself but only notice that this town had maybe more tourists than Thai People! Probably due to the fact that the weekend before was the reggae festival (for the Global Warming)... And Pai is the perfect city for reggae music with most of thai men with dreadlocks and continusly listening to Bob Marley :D The town was full of little comfortable eateries / bars... If I had more time I would have definetely see myself staying there for more than 2 days... Anyway chill out is good but sightseeing was on our timetable the day following our arrival... and we went on with our motorbike to see the Hot Springs (at the very top the water temperature would reach 80 degrees and it was smelling like boiled eggs).... then went to see the Pai Canyon and finally a waterfall ... It was an amzing drive around.. Pai s surroundings are absolutely beautiful!
Anyway... Back to Chang Mai on the 13.. Pete was going back to Bangkok the same night with the night train and for me cheaper option: the Night bus
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