Pai Things to Do

Chillout, do nothing, eat lotza great food, watch lotza films. Greatest Thai food I ate was at the unbelievably cheap Na?s Kitchen.
Waterfalls - 2 charming waterfalls (bike ? 80baht per day)
Hot Springs ? especially in early morning.
Rafting & Trekking ? check out Tham Lod and other caves near Soppong (bats and swifts at evenings).
Nightlife ? I liked the live music at Bee-Bop and TingTong DJing.

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Yunan is small migrated group from China. They speak Chinese and also Thai language. I take a ride to north part of Pai, same route as Wat Nam Hoo. Glad to find this place because it?s not different as visit China. You can feel the way of their living, building with soil or clay, food and traditional cloth that they wear. I heard that there?re many local use this place to have a party and meeting. How nice?..

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This market seems to be only local come to have a walk. We call Talad Nad, meeting market, where it held only on Wednesday. In the evening of Tuesday before this market start, there?re many trucks drive into this village and start to setup their shop and stay over night there.
Early morning on Wednesday around 06.30 until 10.00 a.m., there?re many people come to shop in this market as it?s only once a week. I imagine that it?s like a supermarket or Wall mart for some of you who go for good and cheap things. You can find real of people life and the way of their shopping style. There?re many products is brought from China and Burma to this town as well.

You may not agree with me about this tip if you don?t like coffee but I do. I?m like a big fan of coffee drinker as at least once a day. All about coffee is the name of this shop that I love to go so much. There is small little teakwood house with 2 floors and they have a little gallery to enjoy watching them. There?re some nice good books, both English and Thai language for all of you. Nice small collection of picture and cute souvenir from here as well.

Even though you’re not good to read map when you travel but believe me you won’t get lost in Pai. There’re less than 10 streets in the town and it runs like a circle. If you get lost you just keep riding and you’ll find your place easily unless you’re going out of the town for special trip. So, riding here is nice and good fun.

Please don’t forget to keep driving on left lane as Thailand rule.

Just over 2 bridges to the East is a tample on the hill. You can ride to the top but we chose to walk up the 352 steps and leave the bikes at the bottom. At the top are 3 Wats, one wiht a very interesting masacre mural! There were some funny little features about this place and the views over Pai were dramatic. We didnt stay long as it was very quite and we felt slightly awkward, but its worth a visit fro the steps and the view.

This was the first time I have been in a cave with a guide who has only a lantern to guide us. You can actually appreciate how dark it is in there and it was much better than having discreet lighting and concrete floors.

The fish cave is in a complex of beautiful gardens and there is a beautiful mountain panorama beyond the valley. There is a pool with large fish that you can feed with bread which you can buy at the park's official hut.