Pai Countryside

Pai

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September 25th 2006
Pai is located about four hours from Chiang Mai via a winding road up into the hills. It is an extremely popular stopover for the backpacker crowd... many basing their 'hill tribe treks' from here, and some just settling in for a few weeks or months. So as you might imagine all the western amenities are in abundance. It struck me that even way up here in the hills there is more in terms o ... 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