Arrived in Pai this afternoon after a really windy route across the mountains. Luckily, we remembered to take our travel sickness pills and felt fine, unlike some of the other passengers in our bus.
Pai is quite nice and feels very hippyish. Had a nightmare trying to find rooms as everywhere was full and we thought we were going to have to make do with somewhere really expensive but just as I was about to give up I took a chance on a place along the main road and luckily they had a room for 150B.
After dark the whole main street turns into a market with loads of local handicrafts and tribal goods and food vendors. After a wander round we just found a table at a bar and watched everyone wandering down the street.
It’s pretty cold here (jeans and jumpers minimum) and we saw lots of travellers completely unprepared for the drop in temperature and amazingly, loads of Thai tourists are here (they actually outnumber the westerners) and they also seem very unprepared for the cold. Some have managed to find themselves big winter coats but none of them seem to have thought about their feet and they’re all wearing socks with their flipflops.
Pai is quite nice and feels very hippyish. Had a nightmare trying to find rooms as everywhere was full and we thought we were going to have to make do with somewhere really expensive but just as I was about to give up I took a chance on a place along the main road and luckily they had a room for 150B.
After dark the whole main street turns into a market with loads of local handicrafts and tribal goods and food vendors. After a wander round we just found a table at a bar and watched everyone wandering down the street.
It’s pretty cold here (jeans and jumpers minimum) and we saw lots of travellers completely unprepared for the drop in temperature and amazingly, loads of Thai tourists are here (they actually outnumber the westerners) and they also seem very unprepared for the cold. Some have managed to find themselves big winter coats but none of them seem to have thought about their feet and they’re all wearing socks with their flipflops.
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