Hello from Hippy Town!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday - 26 June 08

Hi everyone at home and hope everyone is well. Well here we are day 5 in Pai and believe me if there was some way we could stay forever we would. We have had a really busy day today and seem to be always doing something or going somewhere, especially on the motorbike which we are loving the freedom it is giving us.

This morning we headed up to the backpacker restaurant, laptop in hand to do the blog and catch up on some emails while we had breakfast, we bought an internet card so we could use the laptop for when I want to upload photos to the blog, other than that it is easier and cheaper to go to the internet cafe which we are now regulars at. For breakfast this morning it was just French Toast and Latte's as I didn't want to spend too much time eating whilst doing the blog and emails.

After breakfast we dropped the laptop back at our Bungalow and back on the bike and off we went for a long, long ride out of town, past the airport and through the Pai valley, this place is so cool, we could quite happily become old hippies and live here forever. Um, something to think about!

We rode back into town and then went to the travel agent to book our bus and flight out of here on Monday. We leave Pai by mini bus at 11am back to Chiang Mai and then fly out of Chiang Mai direct to Phuket at 5pm, arriving 7.05pm. We will stay in Phuket one night and then catch the ferry to Phi Phi Island Tuesday morning and stay on Phi Phi 4 nights, then back to Phuket where we then do our last and final week at Kamala Beach, Phuket before heading back to Oz, 'Not Happy Jan', not ready to leave Thailand. We can't believe how quick the last 2 months has flown and we are on the final leg of our journey, 16 days to go and its all over red rover, at least until we can plan the next trip!

Having got the business side of things out of the way it was time to hit the road again for more exploring. We got on the bike and rode out of town on the road to Chiang Mai, took a turn to head out into the valley and low and behold we found the 'Tha Pai Hot Springs' finally. Of course being in a National Park we had to pay 400 baht each to get in which was pretty good. It was only a 300 mtr walk to the hot pools and believe me they were hot,(took photos will post them tomorrow) they were 80 degrees and there were signs everywhere saying not to get into the pools of hot water and also 'not to boil eggs' in them like they do at the hot springs in Chiang Rai. We spent about an hour there and then more riding through the valley, past the elephants camps and back into town.

We got back to our bungalow and then had half an hours rest and then headed a couple of doors up from where we are staying to a massage place and Rick and I both had a 'Foot, Back & Shoulder' massage for an hour. Man it hurts but boy do you feel good afterwards. They knead every knot out of your body, line up your spine, pummel the stress out of your muscles and really give you a good going over, by the time its over you feel like a rag doll but your body is so loose and with the energy and Kunderlini free flowing throughout your body it feels 20 years younger. I am having another one on Sunday before we leave Pai. WICKED!

Rick and I decided on an early dinner tonight as we were worn out from our riding all day and so relaxed from our massage. We went to our usual restaurant and I had a Tofu burger, salad & banana shake, yum yum and Rick had his Cordon bleu burger, salad & pepsi. We then retreated back to the bungalow, just in time coz it rained and heavy, and hung out watching Aljazeera ( its the only english channel) and veged. What a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Pai !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Until Tomorrow!!!