I washed some clothes this morning before we went out, thin stuff so it would dry by the this evening. Scott went over to reception to get some wifi, I thought he got lost but no he had found another friend! The guy that owned the place, he was English; nice guy, he showed us some places worth visiting on the map.
We were hoping that the motorbike rental shop would be open after sunset because we wanted to go to the canyon to watch the sunset but their opening times were 8-6pm so we couldnt watch the sunset because we had to bring it back tonight as the tomorrow is at 7am! b*****.

We went to the day market for some noodle soup for breakfast, the guy recommended it and it was indeed very good! The chicken was off the bone so it was good, just had to take the skin off of it! First stop along today's journey was the canyon, it was pretty spectacular as it was in the middle of know where; the odd green tree amongst the burnt ones set the scene! There was a good view and it was pretty peaceful before a herd of Chinese people came nattering up the hill, you can hear them a mile away!
That was our que to go, next was the Japanese war memorial bridge which was alright, but this attraction was full of Japanese people having modelling shoots, we seemed to be more interested in the fork lifter going through the stream underneath the bridge and digging away at the mud.
Next we went and found a waterfall, Pombok waterfall is no more as they haven't had rain here since December and the heat hasn't really dropped below high 20s/low 30s so you can imagine how dead things are here and that's without the farmers burning the ground and making the air even more harder to breath in! So we took a ride up to a coffee shop that has some good views of the farming valley, it was called 'coffee in love' it was in a really famous thai film so as you can imagine it was full of Thai tourists! We literally stuck out like a sore thumb at all of these places! There are plenty of westerners about Pai but I don't think many of them venture out to tourist places, they're all too stoned or mellowed out to go anywhere!
So anyways, we sat down and had a coffee and a naughty piece of awesome cake each!
Then Scott spots 'Piranha fishing park' on the map... Whoop! Let's go and see what this is all about, I'm guessing it entails of a boring sport called fishing; and I'm going to love it.
So we get there and there is a big house with a few bungalows and two fairly decent sized lakes, surely there can't be piranhas in here that you can fish!? We ask the lady what's what and no there isn't a piranha in there, just it's cousin the paccu. The difference between them is that the Paccu is a lot bigger and it has teeth like a human and not spiky teeth likes piranha, but they still give a good bite!
So we hired a fishing rod for half a day and we had some bread and crumbs as bait. Scott had to get his thinking cap on now because I didn't have the foggiest at what we needed to do, thankfully Marie who was helping run the place whilst the owner was away was around to help. She had only been fishing for about 3 months and had learnt hell of a lot off her boyfriend there!
I could tell this was going to be a long 3 hours but I was still in some way weirdly excited because I just wanted us to catch something, even if it was a goldfish!
Two hours passed and some boys on the other side of the lake had got lucky by throwing their rods in and within seconds getting a bite, by now Scott was getting really impatient! But finally we had a tug, it was putting up hell of a fight, after around 5 minutes of reeling him in, I caught him in the net! It was only a bloody walking catfish, it was huge!! Marie was there to help hold him down with Scott because there was no way I was holding that moving slimy thing! Took the hook out and had a photo moment with it and then set him free back in the lake. Scott was happy as Larry now that he had caught a fish!

He said that it was bringing his childhood memories back sitting on the canal all day with his Nutella sandwiches but half the time he would end up in hospital having his finger frozen because he had caught his barbed hook in his finger! Ow! He does that here there isn't any hospitals so he'd best be bloody careful!
We had about ten minutes left so we threw all our bait in hoping for the best and just as Scott was about to reel back in after thinking it didn't work and happy he only got one fish, he felt a tug and it was putting up one hell of a fight! The fish was swimming all over the place, it swam into someone else's line so their hook caught caught on our line, Marie had to tell the lady to loose her line to help relieve the pull, then we scooped him up after about 5 minutes of tugging. It was only a great big bloody paccu! It flapped out of the net onto the mud so it was all a bit of a fuss for a few seconds trying to clean him off and get the hook out, he would not keep still! Just enough time for a few photos but he wouldn't keep still for us to get a good photo of his teeth, they were like human teeth; I would not like to find out how they feel! They were huge!! When Scott was putting it back in the water it flapped out of his hands and bashed on the floor - whoops! It was alright though I think! Haha. He looked like a Chesire cat grinning away, happy he could say that he caught a blinking piranha (well it's cousin) and I did help! So joint effort there I think, haha!
We sat chatting with Paul and Marie who were looking after the place whilst the owner was away, not realising the time we had to have the moped back by six. We got back just in time to have a shower and go straight back down to town to drop the bike off and have some food.
Scott was tired, surprise surprise! He is always tired!
He wasn't best impressed when we couldn't get a taxi back up the hill to the bungalows and we had to walk! It only took us 15 minutes and it wasn't a bad walk! He can he so lazy! I secretly did see a taxi service but didn't tell him and then when we did find one they wanted 200 baht so we told them to shuv it. I thought at one point Scott was contemplating paying it!

We were in bed and asleep by 8.30pm, we are such dirty stop outs! Haha. This is the first early night we have had in a while really so it isn't all that bad!

Pai has been lovely but two days has definitely been enough time to explore the area! If the area was greener it would be a lot prettier and if the waterfalls had water in them we would have had a lot of fun in them, but this is the cons of coming in the middle/end of dry season!