Easy as Pai November 27th 2006 Kris
From Chaing Mai we said good bye to the big city for a while and headed to the teeny mountain town of Pai. We took the bus and wound our way up some of the scariest roads I've ever seen and by the midway point I felt quite queazy from the constant meandering up the mountain. It didn't help that the driver had a habit of overtaking trucks on blind bends whilst honking his horn and ... read more
Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Pai 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
It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia.
Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth....
"Where next?" you might ask.
Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam.
We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info