Pai is a small town in Northern Thailand, which is about 3 hrs away from Chiang Mai.
The city center has transformed into a tourist centre containing western style restaurants, souvenir shops, live music venues, tattoo parlours, and bars that cater largely to the now significant influx of tourists and package tours. There are nearby attractions including hot springs and waterfalls, villages and a hilltop temple.
We stopped by the WWII Memorial Bridge, (on the road to Chiang Mai, approx 8km from Pai). The original bridge was built by the occupying Japanese. The current steel truss bridge which sits alongside the present main road was assembled in its current position rather more recently.
We also stopped by a hot spring resort to bath in a hot day. Sulphuric water bubbles out of these hot springs at temperatures of up to 80 degrees Celsius.
On the 2nd day, we checked the Chinese village and two waterfalls then took overnight bus all the way back to Bangkok.
Pai is close to vast jungle-clad mountainous terrain; some of the world's most extensive cave systems; and diverse and intriguing fauna, flora and hill tribe communities that trace their origins to the Shan ethnicities of Burma (Myanmar) and south-western China.
The city center has transformed into a tourist centre containing western style restaurants, souvenir shops, live music venues, tattoo parlours, and bars that cater largely to the now significant influx of tourists and package tours. There are nearby attractions including hot springs and waterfalls, villages and a hilltop temple.
We stopped by the WWII Memorial Bridge, (on the road to Chiang Mai, approx 8km from Pai). The original bridge was built by the occupying Japanese. The current steel truss bridge which sits alongside the present main road was assembled in its current position rather more recently. On the 2nd day, we checked the Chinese village and two waterfalls then took overnight bus all the way back to Bangkok.Pai is close to vast jungle-clad mountainous terrain; some of the world's most extensive cave systems; and diverse and intriguing fauna, flora and hill tribe communities that trace their origins to the Shan ethnicities of Burma (Myanmar) and south-western China.
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