gnarly tree in the woods on our hike to the elusive waterfall

Pai and back to Chiang Mai

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September 24th 2007
We arrived in Pai around noon after a beautiful winding bus ride through the mountains from Suppong. We checked into a nice-looking $6 en-suite room at Jan's Hotel, surrounded by plush herb gardens and flowers. The clean, nicely furnished bed was deceiving, and hid a terrible mattress complete with jabbing springs to make sleeping a challenge, but we didn't realize that until later and managed t ... 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