Bye Pai A Brief Hello to Chaing Mai...

OK so it's time to start thinking on moving on from Thailand on to Laos before the burning season gets in full swing. For those that don't know farmers burn their rice paddies to regrow the crops and also to grow special mushrooms and this is when the air pollution because severe.

We started the morning by eating homegrown bananas, star fruit and papaya. YUM! Before heading to Pai we visited the Pai Canyon which was really beautiful! We then got started with the torturous drive back through the 3 hours of winding roads back to Chiang Mai. Half way we decided to make the journey even longer by taking a detour to the sticky waterfalls. It was really worth it! We walked up a waterfall with little slippage.

Finally we got to Chiang Mai for, what we thought, was going to be a 2 day stopover...Read more