09/12/07 - 14/12/07
This morning we set off for Pai. The bus ride took us three hours in all. The scenery was beautiful, though the continuous uphill, downhill, and curving slopes were not that nice on our senses. As soon as we arrived the first person we saw at our stop was Peter Paul...and we say that Malta is small!!!
We called Carm to come and meet us, and within a few minutes he was there. He took us to Dang's, a very nice, small restaurant run by its owner, Dang, and her English husband. We left our backpacks there and went to hire an automatic bike. It was Yakof's first time driving one but he soon learned, especially considering that his first experience was driving it, was with Janet at the back and two heavy backpacks, one on Janet's back and the other in front of him!
We then met with Luke, a Maltese guy who offered us to share his hut with him. Well share is not the proper terminology to use as he was paying 4000 Baht a month for renting it and he asked us for 3500 Baht for two weeks! So, obviously, we did not take his offer.
Instead we found accomodation at Pai's Holiday Huts....soon to discover that Yakof was allergic to the leaves the ceiling was made of...
Once settled we went to Carm's and Lee's place for a drink. Their place is small but nice...just comfortable enough for them. After a nice evening spent with them we went back to our hut, discovering for the first time how cold Pai can get when the sun sets!!
The following morning Yakof woke up sick...both the weather and the hut was not doing him any good, so we started re-considering whether or not we would stay for two weeks in Pai. But we left that decision for later.
This morning we set off for Pai. The bus ride took us three hours in all. The scenery was beautiful, though the continuous uphill, downhill, and curving slopes were not that nice on our senses. As soon as we arrived the first person we saw at our stop was Peter Paul...and we say that Malta is small!!!
We called Carm to come and meet us, and within a few minutes he was there. He took us to Dang's, a very nice, small restaurant run by its owner, Dang, and her English husband. We left our backpacks there and went to hire an automatic bike. It was Yakof's first time driving one but he soon learned, especially considering that his first experience was driving it, was with Janet at the back and two heavy backpacks, one on Janet's back and the other in front of him!
We then met with Luke, a Maltese guy who offered us to share his hut with him. Well share is not the proper terminology to use as he was paying 4000 Baht a month for renting it and he asked us for 3500 Baht for two weeks! So, obviously, we did not take his offer.
Instead we found accomodation at Pai's Holiday Huts....soon to discover that Yakof was allergic to the leaves the ceiling was made of...
Once settled we went to Carm's and Lee's place for a drink. Their place is small but nice...just comfortable enough for them. After a nice evening spent with them we went back to our hut, discovering for the first time how cold Pai can get when the sun sets!!
The following morning Yakof woke up sick...both the weather and the hut was not doing him any good, so we started re-considering whether or not we would stay for two weeks in Pai. But we left that decision for later.
The day was spent going round Pai...we went to see where the elephant riding was and also to the Canyon. When we stopped at the Elephant Park, Yakof realised he had lost the bike's key....yessss it had fallen from the bike. So we went back to look for it, slowy, with the bike and luckily enough managed to find it!
Carm offered us to take us to see some huts which were owned by friends, so we decided to go and have a look. The huts were still under construction and, though they looked nice, they asked us for more that we would have liked to spend. In the meantime Yakof's health was not getting any better. In fact that evening, after spending some time at Carm's place, we decided to call it a night as Yakof was sick, while the others went out for a few drinks.
The day after was quite uneventful, apart from the fact that two other Maltese joined in Pai, Alistair and Kathleen, both very nice. Carm and Lee offered us to stay at their place since they were going for a couple of days to Chang Mai and Chang Rai...so we started considering whether to stay at least till they come back.
Our decision whether or not to stay in Pai was soon resolved when that night we had a row, Yakof was getting worse, and as soon as we woke up we decided to set off back to Chang Mai that same day. We were taking the 4 o'clock van and Ska was going to stay in Pai. I was glad we were leaving Pai as, in a way, it did not bring us much luck. But we both would like to go back there as the place is beautiful.
The last hours in Pai was spent going round the countryside in the bike, enjoying beautiful scenery and breathtaking views.....
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