Pai

ok, gotta get back on track. I am now banck in Chang Mai after 3 nights in Pai. It is quite the place, true countryside as i had imagined it to be. We stayed in these really cool bungaloos just outside of town, prolly the nicest place so far for sure. the place was called Pairadise, get it. hehe. Anyways, spent one day waling around and checking out the town, which really has little to check out but that's more what i was up for. That night, the storm came and knocked the power out as we were finishing up dinner and although it came back on maybe 45min later, we were already in chill at our place mode so that night was over. The next day we had planned to get up early and hike to this waterfall that was supposedly a 4 hour hike. BUt of course, we didn't get going until 11 and 3 hours in decided that we should turn back(sucked when some people passed us as we were swimming as they todl us that we were prolly only 20 minutes away, hehe) it was really nice to hike around though, kinda like another say in the office but in a jungle.

That night, we had one of the local foreigners, as tehre is quite teh large foreigner hippie community there and ended up meeting whole bunch of people at this party that night. quite the characters, people that had been there for months and months, i don't know how they do it but i guess it's easy to get caught up in, if your into that type of thing. it was a fun party though, they had a band from chang mai in and played lots of covers and when the band ended they threw on some electronic music which was sweet. the we headed to the bamboo bar which doesn't really open until 1am and were there from 3-4am, the only reason that i was still awake is that i wasn't drinking as i'm still learning to drive the scooter sober let alone drunk.

the next day was a lazy morning and we took the bike touring around to a waterfall that you could slide down and some canyons as well. Then afterwards, as the sun was setting i just rode around for a while with my headphones in. I can sure see how that can be addictive. That night there was another blackout but there was almost nothing open as the elections were today and they want those voters sober. we eventually found a place with these torontonians who was kinda selling illegally, but the night turned bad fast. my food poisoning sickness set in instantly and i was pucking all night. still feeling weak today and so gonna chill out here for a day at least before heading into laos to make sure that i'm better. take care everyone