We woke up at around 10am as checkout is 11 like most places. Packed our stuff together, went downstairs and got some breakfast and waited for the mini van to Pai to pick us up between half 11 and 12. We paid for our first two nights on arrival at the hostel but when we knew we wanted to stay another night we just let them know and they said pay when you check out. Lloyd gave the key in but forgot to get the 100Baht deposit back but then realised they hadn't asked us for the money for the third night so got a bit of a result there!

We got on the mini bus and there were already a few people on there, as we got on a girl asked how we were and we replied, a bit hungover, to which she said, haha this definitely isn't the journey you want to be taking with a hangover. She said the 4 hour journey has about 700 bends. After the first, nice air conditioned bus picked everyone up, it took us to the bus station where we had to get on a cramped minibus with broken air con. We had to sit on the back row with two Thai people with no leg room at all. It was so hot, we stopped off once for a toilet break and everyone would get off soaked in sweat. We tried to sleep the whole way…even though we didn't we had our eyes closed so couldn't really see what the road was like, we could just feel it when we were bashing shoulders with eachother and the Thai bloke beside us!

When we got there we were feeling a lot better, so before trying to find our hostel we decided to get some lunch, we had no idea where the hostel was either which was recommended to us by the girls again! So we thought yeah we can get some lunch, use the WiFi and find the hostel on Google maps. We chose a nice café called Café De Pai and it must have been the first establishment we have been to that didn't have WiFi! They did do good food though so it made up for it! We even got breakfast there the next two days. After eating we got a map and asked where it was but it was just off the map so we still didn't really know where to go, after the meal we just got a tuk tuk, well not really a tuk tuk, more of a motorbike with a weird side cage thing, so we chucked all of our gear in the cage along with Tim who sat on a tiny plastic chair, whilst Lloyd jumped on the back of the old blokes bike, one leg in the cage thing and one where it would normally go on the back of a bike. He took us straight to the hostel naming all the English footballers he could, trying to impress us even though his English wasn't the best.

We went to reception in the hostel where we met the German owner who gave us a bottle of water a toilet roll and a towel each before showing us to our 14 bed dorm. This was different to any other dorm though, it was literally 14 mattresses laid on the floor all next to each other. Was really weird but quite cool as it was just like a big sleepover. We got speaking to a couple of lads in the room, asking what there was to do around Pai, they didn't say there was much just a couple of waterfalls but you have to trek for three hours to get to them and a canyon. They also said there is a big pool where everyone goes to during the day to chill out, listen to music and have a few drinks.

We had had a few heavy nights in Chiang Mai so we said from the start we just wanted to chill out the first night in Pai. After checking in and finding out what was about we took a stroll into the town, on the way we stopped at a hairdressers as it was finally Lloyds turn to get his hair cut. It wasn't quite what he had asked for as she took way too much off, but it could have been a lot worse, but for £2.60, you can't complain. We then went to hire some mopeds for the time we were in Pai as that is pretty much the only way anyone gets around and its cheap. We also booked them up so we could return them back in Chiang Mai on the Thursday, as a lot of people had said it's a great ride, and we didn't fancy a hot sticky mini bus again.

We then rode back to the hostel where they have a big camp fire, a small, very small pool and a stage where they sometimes put films up on the big projector! We had a lot to write on the blog so we just had a couple of beers and wrote that together, spoke to a few people at home then went to bed. It did end up being about 2am in the end but still got some good sleep in.