still dry, but not for long

Pai in the sky

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May 8th 2009
High up in the mountains of Northern Thailand, along a twisting road that has more hairpins than a Winehouse beehive, there is a paradise called Pai. As our bus pulls onto the main street, I spot a group of old hippies with beaded beards deep in conversation outside a cake shop, and know this is going to be a very different ex-pat scene. The sleepy, pretty streets radiating off the river are fille ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more