Well after lengthy consultations we decided to skip the hill tribe treks in favour of heading to Laos as soon as we could seeming as we have already been in Thailand for 3 weeks! Unfortunately the bus only leaves Pai in the direction of Chiang Kong at 9 pm so we missed it last night. So we had a day spare here today and decided to rent out a scooter to explore the local area.Northern Thailand is very hilly and mountainous - I expressed my concerns about a scoote...

After a rough day yesterday and the introduction of some antibiotics I felt well enough today to move on from Chiang Mai. We arrived in Pai just before lunch, after a very windy journey through the hills in a minibus, good job we had empty stomachs! We raced to get a hostel, dumped our bags and booked an elephant trek straight away for this afternoon. After a quick change and bite to eat (thats all we had time for) we headed off to the elephant camp in the back...