Pai is a city (town) in the far north of Thailand near the border of Burma (Myanmar). I got in yesterday afternoon via mini-bus from Chiang Mai. It was only a few hours ride, and much of it beautiful.
Pai is a very relaxed little town and it has a great countryside feel and appeal to it. When I got off the bus I was just standing there looking around and a guy asked me if I was looking for nice cheap place to stay. Of course the answer was yes, and he gave me directions to the place he was just leaving. (Pictured above are the huts I am staying at, and below are the bridges that cross the river)
The place is called Twin Hut, it’s a little out of the town, you have to cross the Pai River over a bamboo bridge and walk a little bit. All of the huts are bamboo and very simple. They have a balcony with a hammock, one light inside and one outside and a mattress with blankets and pillows and a mosquito net. At night you can hear frogs and crickets and at day you can hear the birds singing.
I took a walk/hike today to a waterfall. I think I got to where the falls should have been (because the trail stopped after that) but it was not very impressive. I went a little further and found some nice rapids, but didn’t take too many pictures. It was nice to be out in the forest. On one occasion the sound of the cicadas was nearly deafening. Another time I heard was sound like light rain on the ground, but was actually a lot of spiders, that looked similar to daddy long legs. The sound was them running through the leaves as I approached.
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