Blogs from Pai, North-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 34

Well lads how you all keeping? Any news from home? keep me up top date with the craic! christopher.whelan@gmail.com.....get your fingers out! Right.....so then...Pai. Fecking hell if there ANYWHERE more laid back then this place time probably goes backward in it!!!! If you ever come to thailand you must come here! A great place to recharge after bangkok and changmai! As i mentioned in my last blog a few mates were coming here. I was thinking about it and the coincidently on the same day i got a mail from the big man P Loughran urging me to go there. Cheers for the advice P! This is a great place. It is full of, eh , its full of ....nothing! There is nothing to do here but relax, chill, drink and swing in hammocks....its great! You ... read more

We got a minivan with the Danish 3 we met on the trek. It took about 3 hrs o a very bumpy, windy road. Was worth it though. Its very beautiful up here. Went to find some hot springs but it was soo hot we decided gainst that. Found a nice wooden bungalow to aty in for only 100 baht each. ... read more

Having such a nice time in Pai, Stayed here 4 nights i think now! been on little adventures...got stuck in some mud and covered in it on our way to a hot spring...we had to turn back after a while it was so bad! Yesturday we went to on a little wander and ended up at an elephant camp and we went for an hours ride...getting on the elephant sam fell back on me and we almost fell off which was like 10 ft high....it was nice and a great photo opportunity but the way this elephant had been cared for was awful, it was directed by a pick axe shoved into its neck and when we walked past a tree it ate anything in sight so i think it wasnt fed very well! It is ... read more

Holy crap my month of Muay Thai has come to a close. I gotta say, I really wasn't ready to leave the camp but my tourist visa expires in a week anyways. The last week of training was definately the best. I stepped it up a notch and even started doing the long runs in the morning. The 10 km run takes me a bit over an hour and after the morning of training I slept about 5 hours until training in the afternoon. Then my favorite run in the afternoon was a nice 4 km up some hills past a waterfall. All I can really say is that my fitnes level definately increased and I could feel good about that. As far as my Muay Thai skills, they were improving but still quite pathetic. It ... read more

The vision of bare back elephant riding through unspoilt countryside without any German package tourists within 100 miles was starting to seem a distant dream after our brief elephant experience in Chiang Mai. But after reading a tiny paragraph in some new Thai guide-book we have picked up my hopes were re-ignited!!! "Find Pai elephant Tours office in Pai, ask for Khum Thom and you're away!!!" So we did, although the fiver price tag didn't involve any transport to and from the elephant camp as coach tours tend not to exist this far north in Thailand, but as we had very dodgy mountain bikes hired for a couple of days we were assured by Khum that these would get us to our destination. " 6 Kirometer.......very easy for you!!!!" she said! so off we pedalled in ... read more