When we asked people in Chiang Mai what Pai was like everyone responded with the same "it's a hippy village" and that is exactly what we found (and what we needed after 4 hours of uphill bumpy and windy mountain roads!). The way of life in the town was incredibly laid back- the main street was lined with juice/coffee bars where you could easily while away an afternoon. We were lucky enough to find the nicest guesthouse right away (although pippa and Kat...

Caught a night bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai which was fairly decent, aside from the bug infested stop. On arrival we were taken by some random jeep to a guesthouse, clearly working on commission, as per everyone in thailand!, so we decided to reject this option and hitched a tuk-tuk, also working on commission, who took us to Lanna House. This was an experience in itself. Run by an actually mad woman named Julie, she through her powers of persuasion and our exh...

Hello from Thailand!Arrived in Bangkok at the Kaoh San road which we found overwhelmingly busy, touristy and noisy. This makes it sound like we didn't like it but it was actually very exciting and full of energy, not to mention having the most amazingly delicious and cheap street food, which evidently pleased the two of us immensely. We were supposed to stay at D and D inn which seemed very upmarket (well for thailand anyway) but on arrival they made up some sto...