Monday - 23 June 08
Hello from the granny bikies in Pai! Well we are up to day 3 in Pai and loving it, as usual. Rick and I are having shit loads of fun getting around on the motorbike, how cool is it! Rick and I being a bit adventurous, I know, is probably shocking a lot of you reading this blog, but hey you are never to old to experience different things and life is all about being, seeing and taking a few risks.
We have decided to hang out here a few more days and bypass moving on to Mae Hong Son, there is so much more we want to see and do here and its such a wicked little town. We headed across the bridge and into town early this morning so we could get into an internet cafe before it got too crowded. There are a few internet cafes but not all are always open and the ones that are, are always packed. Since we have decided to stay a few more days we went hunting for a place in town to stay so we are close enough to cruise the streets at night and besides its so hot here that you really need to have airconditioning which our current place doesn't have. We found a lovely little bungalow in a new guesthouse/resort in town and within walking distance to everything. It has aircon and a lovely shady verandah, cable tv with 1 english speaking channel, ha ha! no bloomberg and an outdoor bathroom, very modern, very clean and more to the point, quiet and private. The owner quoted us 800 baht a night and its worth it but Rick did his usual bargaining and ask the owner for a discount if we stayed more than one night. Its the quiet season so you can bargain down the price of accommodation. So the owner gave us a discount so we are only paying 730 baht a night ($24 Aus).
It was very hot and humid again today (dah! its the monsoon season) so we decided once we has organised our new accommodation for tomorrow to go for a long ride and explore other parts of Pai, its cooler out on the bike. We went further out into the countryside and followed the road as far as we could go. We went through a little village, past a temple the elephant farm, many other new and expensive resorts, farms, rice fields, you name it we saw it.
We spent the rest of the arvo sweating our butts off at our bungalow watching the storm brewing and hoping we would get it and enough rain to cool the place down. We did eventually get a breeze but the storm and rain seem to follow the ridge of the surrounding mountains.. We headed off into town tonight and decided to try yet another of the great little restaurants, we decided on Thai for dinner which was really tasty and cheap. We have found a restaurant at a backpackers place that has Wi Fi so I will take the laptop there and I can then upload some photos of Pai and some of the places we have been here on the next blog.
So until tomorrow and the blog. See ya!
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