Baan Pai bungalow

Pai in the sky

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June 11th 2007
Wow....we finally found Asian Nirvana. Pai is a wonderland. Located about 2.5 hours northwest of Chiang Mai (near the border of Burma/Myanmar), Pai is a beautiful little town which has the most amazing mix of Thai and American counter-culture. Pai (as it is today) was put on the map in the 1960's when various ex-pats from the U.S. and Europe decided that it would be a good idea to settle in a lit ... 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