- Welcome to Pai, baby.
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February 2018.
I'm about to jump on a bus to go to Pai, P-A-I.
A minibus--it looks like that.
I don't know.
I'm not too certain about it.
There's 762 twists and turns and hairpins
on the road between Chiang Mai and Pai.
So this is gonna be one real adventure.
Wish me luck.
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We're on a 20 minute break on our way to Pai.
The road is so messed up.
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It's about one o'clock in the afternoon.
I just got off the bus, and I'm in Pai,
P-A-I, Pai in northern Thailand.
I'm very, very tired, and it was
about a three hour bus ride here.
It was probably one of the most screwed-up roads
I've ever been on in my life.
I'll flash this up on your screen.
There are over 700, supposedly 762 different turns
in the road, and people get sick, lot of accidents,
and tourists usually come off their motor bikes
because they don't anticipate the turn properly.
So it's very dangerous.
But I got a minibus.
It cost 250 baht.
Literally we left at 10:15 this morning.
It's about one o'clock now, so it's
about three hours on the bus.
And you can actually apparently
take a scooter and do a one-way transfer
and organise for your luggage to come
with you in like a van or something
if you wanna experience the road to Pai
on a motorbike or a scooter, which is probably
what I'll do when I go back to Chiang Mai.
And that's it.
So here I'm in Pai, and I'm gonna take you around.
Take you around very shortly and carry all my stuff,
my laptop and everything, check in to my place.
I'm staying at The Quarter.
It's very, very nice according to the photos.
So we'll give you a little tour of that.
And then check out this place
and then see what this place has to offer.
Very fancy, very fancy.
This stuff's getting real heavy.
I'm really tired, and it's really hot,
and it's really heavy, and I'm really tired.
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Wow, very nice.
Thank you.
It's almost two o'clock in the afternoon,
and I'm at The Quarter, the place
I'm staying at for two nights.
It's so quiet here I feel like I can't be too loud.
It's 269 Australian dollars two nights.
It's about 135, it's not bad.
So let's have a look, turn around.
This is it.
Look at that.
Let's go inside.
It's very, very modern, very nice,
and I'm super happy with this, air conditioned.
I feel like I'm still whispering.
Anyway, so this is the bathroom, check this out.
Check this out, check this out.
Little knickknacks, cool, huh?
Anyway, so I should be spending at least two nights here,
maybe extending for one or two nights.
This is nice.
Lots of nice little things that make it
quite a nice place to stay.
So I hope you like it.
If you decide to come to Pai then you can stay here.
There's a swimming pool, which I can't shoot a video
of it now 'cause there's people in the pool,
but afterwards I'll try and get some photos
and throw it up if I can.
So I'm gonna explore this little town of Pai.
I'm super excited to be here.
And you can come with me on that journey.
I checked in here, I'm super tired,
so I apologise I don't have the same level of energy.
I think 762 turns in the road has just exhausted me.
Anyway, that's it.
Let's leave, let's go and check this place out.
Come with me.
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A pretty good map of Pai summarised for you.
Check this out.
So right now I am here somewhere.
I'm staying near the hospital, The Quarter.
Pai Walking Street.
All the activities it seems that people do here: Lod Cave,
Coffee and Love, I think that's
just like the coffee shop,
the White Buddha,
waterfall,
and that's it.
Hot springs, right there.
Seems to be the popular places to go and see here in Pai.
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On Pai Walking Street right now,
'cause every little town in Thailand's
not complete unless it has a walking street.
So on Walking Street you'll find all these places
where you can buy stuff like this,
and real hippie stuff, look.
Same material that you use to put potatoes in.
That's the same material as like a Hessian bag.
Four dollars a day to hire a motorbike here.
I'm about to go in for a massage, for a coconut oil massage.
Okay guys, it's four o'clock in the afternoon.
I just had a one hour massage.
It was the best.
And 300 baht, 12 Australian dollars here in Pai,
can't go wrong, just the best.
I'm just totally relaxed right now, totally relaxed.
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